Triple Agent

Triple Agent

A moving epic of love and betrayal...

2004 · 115 min · ★ 5.8 · Thriller, Drama

The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon. Fiodor's Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors. Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin's Great Purge, considers his options. He plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death.

Directed by Éric Rohmer · Written by Éric Rohmer

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Katerina Didaskalou Arsinoé
Serge Renko Fiodor
Cyrielle Clair Maguy
Grigori Manoukov Boris
Dimitri Rafalsky général Dobrinsky
Nathalia Krougly la Générale
Amanda Langlet Janine
Emmanuel Salinger André
Vitaliy Cheremet Alexis Tcherepnine
Jeanne Rambur Dany
Georges Benoît Le commissaire français
Laurent Le Doyen

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