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The Silent Man

The Silent Man

Drama

Claude Pinoteau

Lino Ventura, Leo Genn, Suzanne Flon, Robert Hardy, Léa Massari, Pierre-Michel Le Conte

1973

France, Italy

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Completed

French

117 minutes

2025-02-20 03:57:35

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This film (drama)Also known asLe silencieux,is aFrance, ItalyProducerwomen sex,At1973Released in year 。The dialogue language isFrench,Current Douban rating7.8(For reference only)。
Clément Thibert, an unknown French physicist researching energy, was kidnapped by Boris, a KGB agent disguised as a symphony conductor, on his way to the International Thermonuclear Conference in Vienna in 1957 and taken to the Soviet Union. Under KGB coercion, Thibert worked for the Soviet Atomic Energy Institute for over a decade. Sixteen years later, Thibert (using the alias Harikov) was part of the Soviet scientific delegation visiting the new thermonuclear device in London, where he was kidnapped by British counterintelligence in a staged car accident and taken to the hospital, where he was injected with a substance that rendered him unconscious. KGB personnel rushed to the embassy, and the doctor stated, "Ha is dead," later falsely claiming he had been cremated. The British authorities wanted Thibert to identify KGB agents among British scientists, which he agreed to. These agents were arrested one by one. The British counterintelligence rewarded Thibert with a sum of money and a self-defense pistol, allowing him to return to France. The KGB, realizing Thibert was not dead and had defected, ordered their operatives to track him down and kill him. Once Thibert left the British intelligence agency, he found himself surrounded by the KGB. He hid and fled in fear for his life. He escaped to France, meeting his remarried wife Maria in a small restaurant, filled with emotion. After a brief reunion, he continued to flee to evade KGB pursuit. He discovered by chance that Boris was also in France and, risking everything, managed to infiltrate Boris's residence while he was recording for the Geneva Broadcasting Station, finding the sheet music used for passing information as evidence to send to the French security services. The French authorities arrested Boris. The KGB, left with no choice, refrained from killing Thibert to secure a deal for Boris's release from France. What ultimately awaits Thibert? It seems no one can predict.

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