Night Flight from Moscow
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Film poster under title Le Serpent
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| Directed by | Henri Verneuil |
| Produced by | Henri Verneuil |
| Written by | Henri Verneuil Gilles Perrault |
| Starring | Yul Brynner Henry Fonda Dirk Bogarde |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Claude Renoir |
| Edited by | Pierre Gillette |
| Distributed by | Pathfinder Pictures |
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Release dates
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7 April 1973 |
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Running time
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113 minutes |
| Country | France, Italy, West Germany |
| Language | English French German |
Night Flight from Moscow (also known as Le Serpent[1]) is a Franco-German-Italian thriller released in 1973. It was produced and directed by Henri Verneuil. The score was written by Ennio Morricone.
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Plot
Aleksey Teodorovic Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a high ranking KGB official who defects while in France. He has with him highly-classified information as part of a deal with Western intelligence for his arrival in the United States. The debriefing is held at Langley by DCI Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) and MI6 representative Philip Boyle (Dirk Bogarde). Vlassov hands off a list of enemy agents in Western Europe including a deep penetration into NATO.
Davies wants to begin operations to arrest the agents; however, those on the list suddenly begin to die off. The CIA also has suspicions over the authenticity of Vlassov's claims. The CIA discovers that a defection photo of Vlassov was taken in the Soviet Union, not in Turkey, judging from the contours of Mount Ararat in the background. Vlassov also fails a lie detector test after he angrily protests about sexual related questions asked by the CIA during the test.
Cast
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- Yul Brynner: Vlassov
- Henry Fonda: Allan Davies
- Dirk Bogarde: Philip Boyle
- Philippe Noiret: Lucien Berthon
- Michel Bouquet: Tavel
- Martin Held: Lepke
- Virna Lisi: Annabel Lee
- Paola Pitagora: Jeannine Santelli
- Elga Andersen: Kate Cross
- Marie Dubois: Suzanne
- Nathalie Nerval: Tatiana Vlassov
- Farley Granger: Computer Programming Director
- Luigi Diberti: Lefevre
- Robert Alda: Man interrogated by Tavel
Reception
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References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Night Flight from Moscow at IMDb
- Night Flight from Moscow at AllMovie
- Trailer
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