The Red Shade

The Red Shade (1981)

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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.

Director: Jean-Louis Comolli

Casts

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

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