The Iron Curtain (1948)

Directed by

William A. Wellman

Genre

biographical film, propaganda film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Soviet cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko decides to defect to the West with secret documents. He must evade capture by Soviet agents in Ottawa. The film follows his real life story from 1945.

tensesuspensefulhistoricalseriousmethodicalpoliticaldramaticrestrained

What happens

The Iron Curtain is a 1948 American thriller film starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, directed by William A. Wellman. It was the first film on the Cold War. The film was based on the memoirs of Igor Gouzenko. Principal photography was done on location in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada by Charles G. Clarke. The film was later re-released as Behind the Iron Curtain. In Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox, Russian composers Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian, and Nikolai Myaskovsky unsuccessfully sued 20th Century-Fox, the film's distributor, in New York court, for using their musical works, which were in public domain in United States. However, among other arguments, the composers asserted the use of the works was a violation of the composers’ moral rights. However, the plaintiffs were victorious in the French analog Société Le Chant du Monde v. Société Fox Europe and Société Fox Americaine Twentieth Century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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