Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: SMO-7275
- Format: Blu-ray
- UPC: 089353727529
- Street Date: 04/09/19
- PreBook Date: 03/05/19
- Label: S'more Entertainment »
- Genre: Drama
- Run Time: 102 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1982
- Region Code: 1
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: US,CA
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Martin Sheen
- Sam Neill
- Derek Jacobi
- Frank Finlay
- Michael Lonsdale
- Director: Jeannot Szwarc
- Producer: Andre Pergament
- Producer: Peter Shaw
- Producers: Andre Pergament
- Producers: Peter Shaw
Product Assets
Enigma
A CIA agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot
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The CIA discovers a Russian plot to assassinate five soviet dissidents on Christmas Day, but they do not know who they are. The detective Alex Holbeck is recruited in Paris by CIA and sent to East Berlin to steal the scrambler of the Enigma, the machine used by the soviet intelligence for communication. On the arrival, Holbeck discovers that the KGB and the East Germany government know that he has arrived and his contacts are arrested. Holbeck meets his former lover, the lawyer Karen Reinhardt, and she gives a safe house to him. The Russian agent Dimitri Vasilikov and the East German agent Kurt Limmer try to find Holbeck's where abouts using different methods, while Karen seduces Dimitri to get the information about the location of the soldiers that Holbeck needs. However, Holbeck does not know that the CIA has the scrambler and he is only a bait to convince the Russians that they do not have it.
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Sales Points
- Martin Sheen once said of this film: '...it's the best role I've had since Apocalypse Now
- For his character in this movie, actor Martin Sheen had to wear disguises. Sheen said that this was the first time he had worn disguises since ''The Apple Man' during the late 1960s
- Neill screen tested for the role of James Bond prior to The Living Daylights (1987)
- Last cinema score of Douglas Gamley (TRON, Return of the Pink Panther, Little Prince, Charade)
- The East Berlin locations in this movie were actually filmed in the French locations of Lille in Nord and Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin
- Sam Neill stars as a Russian KGB agent in this movie. Around the time of this film, Neill was famed for playing British spy Sidney Reilly in Reilly: Ace of Spies
Press Quotes
an old style cold war spy thriller
—Movie Scene
Full of twists and turns this is enjoyable from the start
—Jason E, Rotten Tomatoes
A great espionage thriller...The ending is a wonderful and ironic .two thumbs up!
—Tuna and Johnny Web, Scooby.com
