The Red Shade

The Red Shade

112 mins | Drama, Thriller | Oct. 28, 1981

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.

The Red Shade

112 mins | Drama, Thriller | Oct. 28, 1981

The Red Shade
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.
Producers
Original title L'Ombre rouge
Directors Vincent Lombard, Louis Mathieu, Pierre Wallon, Jean-Louis Comolli
Writers Jean Louvet, Gérard Guicheteau, Claudio Biondi, Jean-Louis Comolli

Cast

Claude Brasseur

as Anton Kovetz

Jacques Dutronc

as Léo

Nathalie Baye

as Anna

Andréa Ferréol

as Magda

Panisse

as