On Thin Ice (1966)

Original title

По тонкому льду

Directed by

Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh

Genre

adventure film, war film, spy film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

2h 55m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two Soviet NKVD agents work in the Oryol region tracking foreign spies before and during World War II. They risk their lives to uncover enemy plots and protect their homeland.

suspensefulhistoricalwartimetenseseriouspatrioticmethodicalgritty

What happens

On Thin Ice (Russian: По тонкому льду, romanized: Po tonkomu ldu) is a 1966 Soviet spy film directed by Damir Vyatich-Berezhnykh, based on Georgiy Bryantsev's 1961 book, which provided the first authoritative public description of counterintelligence group GUKR (SMERSH). The film tells the story of two NKVD agents who fight foreign spies in the Oryol Oblast before and during the Second World War. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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