Nyugati övezet

Nyugati övezet

1952 · ★ 7.0 · Drama, Thriller

Prof. Laurent Akush from the Institute of Geophysics is working on a device that can be used to locate coal underground. For successful work he needs a tube XCX13, it is available in the West, but foreign firms sabotage the supply of the device. In his institute there is an enemy engaged in sabotage, but the professor does not believe in enemies. He believes that this is propaganda, science is above ideology, and that "scientists are made of a different dough." Laurent Akush receives an invitation to the international geological congress in Berlin, there he hopes to meet an old American friend, the scientist McLane. He takes with him his assistant Ferenc Ervish and a young Stakhanovite worker, Ishvan Kadosh. The professor does not yet know that in Berlin, Colonel Thompson of American intelligence is preparing a trap for him.

Directed by Zoltán Várkonyi · Written by Péter Bacsó

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Artúr Somlay Ákos Lóránt professzor
Ádám Szirtes István Kádas
Sándor Pécsi Forgács
Éva Spányik Éva Takács
Mária Sulyok Kádas's mother
Hilda Gobbi Lotte
Gyula Benkő Ferenc Örvös
István Somló Thompson
Tivadar Uray McLane
Károly Kovács Dr. Conrad
László Kemény Greenwood
István Velenczei Boswall

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