The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1965 British Cold War spy film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner.

The West Berlin office of the Circus, under administrator Alec Leamas Richard Burton, has not been doing well. He is recalled to London shortly after the death of one of his operatives. Leamas is seemingly demoted to the banking section of the agency. In reality, a carefully staged transformation of Leamas has been arranged by Control Cyril Cusack, the agencys chief. Now depressed and disgruntled, alcoholic and low on funds, he is quickly spotted by the East German Intelligence Service as a potential defector.Leamas accepts overtures from German communists to reveal British secrets for payment, and he is interviewed by a man named Peters Sam Wanamaker at a coastal house in the Netherlands about what he knows. When the process is later moved to a country villa in East Germany, the interviews become less cordial. It appears Leamas has information that will implicate a powerful East German intelligence officer named Mundt Peter van Eyck as a paid informant of the British, but the information is spotty and it frustrates his interrogator, Fiedler Oskar Werner. When Mundt arrives at the compound and discovers the investigation, he has both Leamas and Fiedler arrested. Mundt himself is eventually arrested. ........

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