Hot patch for spies
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hot patch for spies |
| Original title | Because Berlino l'apocalisse |
| Country of production |
Italy Germany France |
| original language |
Italian German French |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mario Maffei |
| script |
Vincenzo Flamini Carlo Gualtieri Albert Kantoff Mario Maffei |
| production | Mario Campanella |
| music | Bruno Nicolai |
| camera | Mario Fioretti |
| cut | Franco Attenni |
| occupation | |
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Hot Patch for Spies is an Italian-German-French agent film from 1966 with Roger Hanin and Margaret Lee in the lead roles.
action
When the French secret agent Julien Saint-Dominique is in Berlin, his friend and colleague Felix is shot from behind by an unknown person. Felix was about to leak important information to Saint-Dominique about a dangerous secret organization that is trying to use disinformation to play the free west against the communist east. The best starting point for this is Berlin, which was divided at the time (shooting time 1966), a, as the film's title suggests, “hot spots for spies”. Here Saint-Dominique's contact person, the scientist Raischau, is kidnapped. Obviously, the backers controlled by an Asian superpower (= People's Republic of China) want to provoke an atomic exchange of blows between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and thus trigger a third world war.
On behalf of his superior Colonel Lasalle, Saint-Dominique tries to prevent the worst. He meets with Raischau's daughter Ingrid and gets to know the mysterious and seductive Olivia, a truly bad girl. Another lead even leads him to Mexico City, where Saint-Dominique almost fell victim to an assassination attempt. In this delicate case, the French secret service agent receives support from a colleague from the US CIA . Behind the Iron Curtain, there is a decisive encounter with the mysterious Papillon in East Berlin. Back in the west, Saint-Dominique has to discover that he has been the victim of a ruse: friend Felix is by no means dead, but collaborates with the enemy. His plan is nothing less than to manipulate the military communication channels of the two power blocks in such a way that both sides feel compelled to attack. After all, Saint-Dominique, "the tiger", as it is also called, can prevent the unleashing of a third world war and thus the global inferno at the last minute.
Production notes
Hot Patch for Spies was shot largely in West Berlin in 1966 and premiered on February 9, 1967. The German premiere took place on March 30, 1967.
useful information
Hot spots for spies is a typical product of the so-called "Eurospy" wave of films that had been rampant in continental Europe at that time since the great international success of the James Bond films. The majority of these films were co-produced between Spain, Italy, the Federal Republic and France. The fact that villainy originated in the People's Republic of China is not uncommon for films of this type in those years, since at that time (1966/67) the Cultural Revolution, which was deeply disturbing for the West, was raging with all its might in the People's Republic of China .
Reviews
In Italy, the film was discussed in February 1967 in the specialist magazine "Vie Nuove" very friendly. The critic T. Chiaretti spoke of the “lightness and moderation” that the director Maffei displayed and identified “many good ideas”. The film is more "often funny than dramatic".
The lexicon of international films described the film as “not very original” and “unsure of style” and found the hot patch for spies at most attractive “through the images of Berlin at that time”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hot patch for spies. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 15, 2018 .
Web links
- Hot bed of spies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hot spots for spies at filmportal.de