The Spies

The Spies
  • Release date: 19 Sep 1957
  • Release year: 1957
  • Runtime: 125 minutes
  • Country: France, Italy
  • Keywords: mysterious man, french noir, soviet spy, espionage, literature on screen, european literature on screen, czech literature on screen, crime literature on screen, czech crime literature on screen, psychiatrist
Plot:
A psychiatrist, desperate for money to keep his faltering practice running, makes a deal with a spy to hide a mysterious person in his clinic in return for a million francs. As soon as the deal is struck his place is overrun by spies from both East and West, all in search of a renegade nuclear scientist. The psychiatrist's own sanity starts to break down as he submitted to unmitigated surveillance and deception.
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