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Espion, lève-toi (1982)
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27 January 1982 (France)
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Splendid Spy Thriller
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Lino Ventura | ... | Sébastien Grenier |
| Michel Piccoli | ... | Jean-Paul Chance |
| Bruno Cremer | ... | Richard |
| Bernard Fresson | ... | Henri Marchand |
| Marc Mazza | ... | Ramos Bavila |
| Roger Jendly | ... | Le commissaire Lohmann |
| Heinz Bennent | ... | Meyer |
| Krystyna Janda | ... | Anna Gretz |
| Beate Kopp | ... | La secrétaire de Grenier |
| Christian Baltauss | ... | Le bibliothécaire |
| Kurt Bigger | ... | Alfred Zimmer |
| Jean-Paul Franky | ... | Rudy la blonde |
| Yves Boisset | ... | L'adjoint de Richard |
| Daniel Plancherel | ... | L'inspecteur Vogel |
| Philippe Brizard | ... | Le collaborateur de Grenier |
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98 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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West Germany:12 (f)
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I caught this film on a hotel room TV set, just when I was going to bed. A look at Lino Ventura made me stay just for a few minutes - and finally I set on to the dramatic, dark end. Looking at my watch I noticed that I must have started watching the film just after the early credits.
This capacity of keeping even a tired spectator awake is a trade mark of director Yves Boisset, with an easy to follow storyline told so that it is new, or old seen through interesting new angles. The ambiance is luxurious Switzerland and French intelligence headquarters, or college's libraries - for spying is done not only by your common 007-type of agent, but by people "above all suspicion".
Ventura plays a retired agent living a peaceful life with a younger, loving German woman, who's teaching in France, when he is called into active service again - very much against his will. When he finally starts suspecting all people around him - minus those who fall dead after he makes the first moves into knowledge... - it will be too late. Too late to avoid discovering the unthinkable truth, and too late to get back to his peaceful retirement.
The dark end may not please all viewers, but it is actually a signal of the times the movie was made - and now that you are a quarter of a century past that, you may notice that it was a forewarning against the all encompassing spying and intruding on people's lives from those people up there who are "above all suspicion"!