A much older-looking Montgomery Clift, who was probably ailing, as he died that year, still makes for an interesting thriller about a physicist recruited to get information from a fellow Russian physicist regarding the Soviets plans to get to the moon. He is to get the code in East Germany. The problem is that the East Germans are quite savvy about all this and have plans of their own for Prof. Bower (Clift) They are hoping to get him to defect to East Germany.
A Jewish doctor in Leipzig, attempting to help Bower is shot down in a street scene reminiscent of Germany during the Nazi Regime.
There is time for the professor to have romance with a woman named Hoffman, assistant to the doctor.
The film then becomes one of the professor trying to get out of East Germany.
The film shows that there were sympathetic East Germans, but at the same time, there is a head soldier who is made to look like the 3rd Reich is still back in business, and David Opatoshu's performance as an East German bureaucrat who is callous, cunning and vicious.
A Jewish doctor in Leipzig, attempting to help Bower is shot down in a street scene reminiscent of Germany during the Nazi Regime.
There is time for the professor to have romance with a woman named Hoffman, assistant to the doctor.
The film then becomes one of the professor trying to get out of East Germany.
The film shows that there were sympathetic East Germans, but at the same time, there is a head soldier who is made to look like the 3rd Reich is still back in business, and David Opatoshu's performance as an East German bureaucrat who is callous, cunning and vicious.