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A C.I.A. Agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.A C.I.A. Agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.A C.I.A. Agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.
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- TriviaMichael Lonsdale was dubbed by Marc Smith. Lonsdale appeared in this spy movie, which was released just a few years after Lonsdale played the villain Drax in Moonraker (1979).
- GoofsDuring a radio broadcast (some 4 minutes into the movie), the Martin Sheen character gives the name of East Germany - the country of his birth - as "Deutschland Democratic Republic" whereas the official name was "German Democratic Republic" in English and "Deutsche Demokratische Republik" in German.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Pfarrer Braun: Die Gärten des Rabbiners (2008)
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a smart, darkly atmospheric, engagingly adult spy thriller that more than merits a revisit!
This intelligent, meticulously plotted, robustly acted cold war thriller by gifted director, Jeannot 'Jaws 2' Szwarc retains much of its weighty, grimly atmospheric iron Curtain gravitas. 'Enigma' is a downbeat, fiendishly gripping 80s espionage yarn, with the disarmingly charismatic, Sam Neill's audacious attempts to out 'cat & mouse' an indefatigable Sheen is dramatically set against a doomy, oppressively glacial East Berlin backdrop, and the distractingly delicious blonde, Karen Reinhardt (Brigitte Fossey) vividly completes this increasingly dangerous, daringly duplicitous ménage à trois! The Teflon tough 'Enigma' provides exciting, nerve-twanging thrills, its grim, suffocatingly paranoid miasma of frost-bitten, pre-perestroika gloom maintained throughout, with Alex's and Karen's burgeoning love affair lending additional pathos to, Szwarc's engrossing, bullet-paced thriller. There is a dynamic, Len Deighton-esque quality to, Alex Holbeck's (Martin Sheen) increasingly desperate attempts to covertly purloin a cumbrous-looking soviet scrambler. In a rousing finale, Alex find's himself only merest heartbeats away from capture, frequently relying on guile, rather than brawn to elude his dogged, equally devious nemesis, Dimitri Vasilikov (Sam Neill).
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- Gross US & Canada
- $893,967
- Gross worldwide
- $893,967
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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