The Red Shade

Overview

The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no fault of their own, fear drives one of them to suicide while the other gets his lover and her child and begins a run for his life, knowing that the KGB will never let him go free.

Directed by Jean-Louis Comolli

Top cast

Claude Brasseur

Anton Kovetz

Jacques Dutronc

Léo

Nathalie Baye

Anna

Andréa Ferréol

Magda

Nicolas Hossein

N

Nicola Belsky

J

Julien Blaine

M

Michelle Carles

P

Philippe Carles

C

Christian Gauffre

P

Panisse

Cafe owner

Alexandre Arbat

L

Lev Belsky

Soudrov

J

Jean-Jacques Biraud

F

Facundo Bo

Müller

Pascal Bonitzer

The Dutch

Pinkas Braun

Maly

Patrick Depeyrrat

André Dupon

G

Giovanni Früh

José

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