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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Reva 2022-03-25 09:01:23
In fact, most of the time in the film is in London and The Hague. Where is Berlin? At the end, the Berlin Wall, which only lasted for three minutes, said it all: you sacrificed nothing but concrete and bricks. I don't want to belittle the fact that this movie is propped up by the actors, but if Richard Burton's acting is not convincing enough to make the audience doubt reality, how can it be said that this movie is still a spy war theme to this day What about the ceiling? You can't tell if his downfall, sarcasm, pride, disdain, and fear are part of his soul or part of his mission. The opening response to the CIA agent in a few words immediately outlines the experienced and resourceful side of this arrogant but lonely Briton, and then for the next hour and a half we see that he seems to deliberately draw a line with such inhuman qualities In the last ten minutes, we realized that such a quality, for an ordinary person, is just a fairy tale imagination and a painful burden.
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Liana 2022-03-25 09:01:23
Noir's nucleus under espionage. The story is concise and can be reversed many times, and the narrative is effective at the same time fully depicting the human nature of the protagonist and the ruthless cruelty of the system. Whether it is a spy who enters the system or an ordinary person who seems to have nothing to do with the system, in the end they are the so-called pawns in the overall situation. In the end, I almost didn't understand Nancy's ending. The innocents always get slaughtered.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold quotes
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Alec Leamas: She offered me free love. At the time, that was all I could afford.
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Alec Leamas: I reserve the right to be ignorant. That's the Western way of life.