The Red Shade
1981The 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.
Acted in
Claude Brasseur
as Anton Kovetz
Jacques Dutronc
as Léo
Nathalie Baye
as Anna
Andréa Ferréol
as Magda
Nicolas Hossein
Nicola Belsky
Julien Blaine
Michelle Carles
Philippe Carles
Christian Gauffre
Panisse
as Cafe owner
Alexandre Arbatt
Lev Belsky
as Soudrov
Jean-Jacques Biraud
Facundo Bo
as Müller
Pascal Bonitzer
as The Dutch
Pinkas Braun
as Maly
Patrick Depeyrrat
André Dupon
Giovanni Früh
as José
Louba Guertchikoff
Alain Ilan-Chojnow
Charles Millot
as Magda's father
Stephan Meldegg
as The Nazi
Biaggio Pelligra
Simone Real
as Singer
Maurice Risch
as Marcel
Pierre Semmler
as SS officer
Gratien Tonna
as Legionnaire
Serge Valletti
Max Vialle
as The Mister
Sylvain Plaine
Thierry Benoît
Nicolas Escale
as (uncredited)