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Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy methodical Cold War thrillers built around covert operations, psychological manipulation, and escalating conspiratorial tension.
- Tone
- tense, cerebral, eerie
- Payoff
- unease, adrenaline
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- espionage, brainwashing, sabotage, paranoia, divided loyalties
- Setting
- late twentieth-century Cold War, American cities and military installations