Underplayed Gems

On Thin Ice (1966)

On Thin Ice poster
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
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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.

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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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