Love nights in the taiga
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Love nights in the taiga |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Philipp |
| script |
Werner P. Zibaso Harald Philipp based on the novel of the same name (1966) by Heinz G. Konsalik |
| production | Franz Seitz for Franz Seitz film production (Munich) |
| music | Manfred Huebler |
| camera | Helmut Meewes |
| cut | Ingeborg Taschner |
| occupation | |
and Rudolf Schündler , Henning Schlueter , Friedrich Georg Beckhaus , Gerhard Frickhöffer , Werner Abrolat | |
Liebesnächte in der Taiga is a German feature film by Harald Philipp from 1967 with Thomas Hunter and Marie Versini in the leading roles.
action
At the time of the Cold War in the 1960s. The CIA leadership has a special assignment for one of their best agents . The perfectly Russian- speaking Baltic German Frank Heller is supposed to travel to the Soviet Union disguised as a Swiss reporter reporting on a fashion show taking place in Moscow . His assignment: In a military restricted area in Siberia , which serves as the rocket base of the Red Army , he is to scout out the test site for new Soviet long-range missiles and photograph the construction plans stored there. When he arrived in Moscow, Heller assumed the identity of a Soviet engineer who wanted to move to the West. But Heller's first mishap happened on the way to the USSR: a model thinks she knows him from New York and confronts the special agent with her knowledge in the Hotel Moskwa . This puts Heller at great risk. Before the KGB can catch him, however, Frank has left.
With the documents from the Soviet engineer, the American enters his service in the timber combine at the Siberian missile base, without knowing that the Soviets are already feverishly looking for him. The real engineer is already dead, the KGB fished his body out of the Moscow River . And the disguised as a furniture retailer, Soviet undercover agent who had helped Heller is already blown. The arrest of Heller is now only a matter of time. However, Heller did not remain idle, he was able to see the plans to be photographed. But then his feelings get in the way. He made friends with the young inspector Ludmilla in the wood combine, and soon more of it will come of it. His feelings for Ludmilla put him in great danger, because Heller doesn't just want to leave them behind. He tries the convinced party soldier to accompany him on the run. That same night, Ludmilla was ordered to arrest the CIA agent.
From now on, Heller is the hunted, but Ludmilla follows her heart and becomes his helper and ally. A merciless hunt for the couple begins, led by a KGB colonel who has his eye on the beautiful Ludmilla himself and proposed marriage to her some time ago in Moscow. During the chase through the inhospitable, inhospitable and snow-covered taiga , Heller and Ludmilla get closer and closer. On their adventurous escape, they both pass a remote convict colony and the small town of Olenek. Here, at a rocket fuel factory, a CIA colleague is waiting to help Heller out of the country. But before Heller and Ludmilla are safe, Heller's friend dies at the hands of the Russian persecutors. Shortly before the border on a river, only a few steps away from freedom, however, their escape ends tragically; the Soviet captors have caught up with the harried couple. Only when the KGB colonel assumes that Heller and Ludmilla must be dead does he break off the hunt. But he was happy too soon ...
production
Love Nights in the Taiga premiered on October 5, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main in the Turmpalast cinema. Heinz Pollak was in charge of production, and Robert Stratil designed the film structures . Erwin Lange created the special effects .
For Marie Versini, who called Love Nights in the Taiga her favorite film, Stanislav Ledinek and Christiane Nielsen , these were the last appearances in the cinema.
Reviews
"Sentimental, inherently unmotivated, lengthy in places and embarrassing, because this agent story is also set in real political references."
“A lying and sweet film, filled with German romantic ideas and clichés about Russian people. A strip that causes nuisance. Without any recommendation. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Marie Versini in an interview with the Badische Zeitung
- ↑ Love nights in the taiga. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 445/1967