Agentful Secret
About Agentful Secret
During the war the Red Army is issued a new heavy gun, the L-2. Engineer Leontiev is sent to the front to test his design in battle, and German intelligence is ordered to take the weapon. The man traveling as Leontiev is state-security major Sergeyev. Colonel Lartsev works the same case. Against them are Gestapo colonel Kraschke and the agent Weininger, who also uses the names Petronescu and Petrov. The real designer, Boris Nikolaevich Leontiev, is a separate man.
Cast & crew
More about Agentful Secret
Vladimir Legoshin directed at Soyuzdetfilm, from Lev Sheynin's story Military Secret. Pyotr Tur, Leonid Tur, and Sheynin wrote the script. The release title is Duel (Poedinok). The premiere was 14 March 1945. Sergei Lukyanov's first film role is Colonel Lartsev. Pyotr Pashkevich and Sergei Slyotov were the designers.
Themes
Background
Made while the war was still going, and released in March 1945, two months before the German surrender.
Making
Nikolai Ozornov recorded the sound. O. Tezovskaya edited.
Audiences
It placed sixth in the 1945 Soviet distribution, with 18.64 million viewers.
Look
Sergey Urusevsky was the cinematographer.
Music
Kliment Korchmaryov wrote the score.
Notes
- Andrey Tutyshkin plays the false engineer, major Sergeyev. Mikhail Sidorkin, uncredited, plays the real designer Boris Nikolaevich Leontiev.
- Nadir Malishevsky is Captain Bakhmetyev. Aleksei Gribov is a state-security commissar. Osip Abdulov is Gestapo colonel Kraschke.
- Nina Alisova plays the singer Natalya Osenina. Nadezhda Borskaya plays Marya Zubova, also called Amalia Carlson.
- Yuri Lyubimov has an uncredited bit as a watcher outside the Hotel Moskva.
- English Wikipedia dates the film 1944 and calls Tutyshkin's part the captive Boris Leontyev. Russian Wikipedia dates the production 1944, the premiere 14 March 1945, and splits the real designer from the impostor.
Scenes
- The L-2 is issued to the Red Army, and the engineer is ordered to the front to test it.
- The man called Leontiev is major Sergeyev. The real designer is someone else.
Influenced by
- Lev Sheynin's story Military Secret
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1944. Поединок.webm)
