During the Cold War in the 1960s, British spy Alec Limas (Richard Burton) was stationed in West Berlin for many years to engage in espionage operations. However, after witnessing his colleague lurking in East Germany being shot and killed by the East German border guards, Alek returned to Military Intelligence 6 headquarters for a classified ultimate mission. In order to infiltrate East Germany, Alek deliberately exposed his weaknesses, even his depraved side, in order to alienate the head of the East German intelligence agency Münter (Peter van Eyck) and his subordinate Fiedler (played by Peter van Eyck). Oskar Werner (played by Oskar Werner), disintegrating his power. However, under the bewildering mask of a double agent, Alek gradually discovered that he was just an insignificant pawn, and his inner moral judgment and the increasingly blurred distinction between good and evil also tortured Alek.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold movie plot
2022-03-14 08:01
Extended Reading
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Vito 2022-03-17 09:01:10
The long shot of 2 minutes and 40 seconds at the beginning outlines the Cold War world under heavy blockade, and also heralds the end of the fate of the protagonist who has no way to escape. This is a spy film that is condensed and concise from photography to dialogue. The cold scenes, the bleak soundtrack, and the dull rhythm all overlap with the inner world of the characters. Richard Burton's blockbuster dialogue at the end of the play is the subversion and ridicule of the world of espionage, revealing the ignorant and sinister side of human nature.
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Roscoe 2022-04-23 07:05:20
The theme is too real and exciting, and you can't guess the ending of a good screenwriter. If it wasn't because the first hour was too boring, it would have been five stars.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold quotes
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Alec Leamas: It was a foul, foul operation, but it paid off.
Nan Perry: Who for?
Alec Leamas: What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong? Yesterday I would have killed Mundt because I thought him evil and an enemy. But not today. Today he is evil and my friend. London needs him. They need him so that the great, moronic masses you admire so much can sleep soundly in their flea-bitten beds again. They need him for the safety of ordinary, crummy people like you and me...
Nan Perry: You killed Fiedler!
Alec Leamas: How big does a cause have to be before you kill your friends? What about your Party? There's a few million bodies on that path!
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Fiedler: Innocent people die every day. They might as well do so for a reason.