Over Tissa (1958)

Original title

Над Тиссой

Directed by

Dmitri Vasilyev

Genre

spy film, thriller film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 19m

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A Soviet border guard investigates suspicious activity near the Tisza river. He must stop a foreign spy attempting to cross the border.

tensesuspensefulcold-war erapatrioticgrittydatedstarkfast-paced

What happens

Over Tissa (Russian: Над Тиссой, romanized: Nad Tissoy) is a 1958 Soviet spy thriller film directed by Dmitri Vasilyev and based on the eponymous book by Alexander Avdeenko. The picture was the box-office leader of the year 1958 in the USSR, it was seen by 45 million viewers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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