Triple agent (2004)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Eric Rohmer

Writer:

Eric Rohmer (written by)

Release Date:

17 March 2004 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

France, 1936-37. The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying...

Plot Keywords:

Russia | Set In France | Spy | Espionage | WWII In France

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Katerina Didaskalou	...	Arsinoé
Serge Renko	...	Fiodor
Cyrielle Clair	...	Maguy
Grigori Manukov	...	Boris
Dimitri Rafalsky	...	Général Dobrinsky
Nathalia Krougly	...	La Générale
Amanda Langlet	...	Janine
Jeanne Rambur	...	Dany
Emmanuel Salinger	...	André
Vitalyi Cheremet	...	Alexis Tcherepnine
Bernard Peysson	...	Le médecin
Laurent Le Doyen	...	Le journaliste
Emilie Fourrier	...	L'aide-couturière
Alexandre Koltchak	...	Planton
Vladimir Léon	...	Tchernov

Also Known As:

Triple Agent (International: English title) (USA) (festival title)
Agente speciale (Italy)
Triple agente (Spain)

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

France | Italy | Spain | Greece | Russia

Language:

French | Russian | German | Greek

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Germany:12 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:U | Netherlands:AL

Company:

Rézo Productions

Soundtrack:

Quatuor no 8

Complex, profound, clairvoyant...

Eric Rohmer masterfully uses Paris as a canvas to brush the complex profiles of his characters, a quartet of retired White Russian Generals, a Greek painter married to a member of the quartet and their friends exiled in 1937 Paris.

Rohmer's mastery: His use of authentic buildings of the period with subtle deco stylization and other White Russian meeting points (the canteen of the Rachmaninov conservatory and a wooden Orthodox church near Butte-Chaumont), along with brilliant dialogues subtly lit with conversation on Picasso, Abstraction and realism in Art. Both the Communist couple and the White Russian couple in the movie will be steam-rolled by the events. Rohmer's use of newsreels is also extremely symbolic. The Paris World Fair of 1937 is shown with its stone colossus in the competing Soviet and Fascits pavilions seeming ready to crush the movie's characters as the end appears.Blum is seen making a speech among a forest of risen fists.

The relativity of life and that of free-will is the real subject. Is Fiodor pulling the strings or is he just just one of the puppets lost in the dubious cauldron of the Germano-Soviet pact of 1939 brewing in the shadows? Extraordinary work of a mature genius that makes one think that freedom is just appearance. Great actors with the beauty of french spoken rolling the Rs (Fiodor) or whispering them (his wife). Tragic unexpected ending. Rohmer revisits Hitchkok for a final "Coup de Theatre"!