Espion, lève-toi (1982)
- Directed by
- Yves Boisset
- Genre
- spy film, thriller film, political thriller film
- Country
- France, Switzerland
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 83 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A sleeper agent living quietly in Zurich is forced back into action. The film follows his struggle as old loyalties and new threats collide around him.
tensegrittysuspensefulmelancholiccolddeliberateparanoidnoir-tinged
What happens
Espion, lève-toi 1982 is a French spy thriller film directed by Yves Boisset about a sleeper agent in Zurich, based on the thriller Chance Awakening (1977) by George Markstein. This film was first supposed to be directed by Andrzej Żuławski, but in the end it was Yves Boisset who did it. This was the second time that Yves Boisset worked together with Ennio Morricone, after their 1972 film Plot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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