The Defector (1966)
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
- Released
- 1966-10-19
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Raoul Lévy, Robert Guenette, Raoul Lévy
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 from 9 votes
Cast
- Montgomery Clift as Professor James Bower
- Hardy Krüger as Counselor Peter Heinzmann
- Macha Méril as Frieda Hoffmann
- David Opatoshu as Orlovsky
- Christine Delaroche as Ingrid Weiß
- Hannes Messemer as Dr. Saltzer
- Karl Lieffen as Major Windisch
- Uta Levka as Mädchen unter der Dusche
- Roddy McDowall as Agent Adams
- Johannes Buzalski as Agent (uncredited)
- Eckart Dux as Professor James Bower (voice) (uncredited)
- Jean-Luc Godard as Orlovsky's Friend (uncredited)