Enigma
“He was a man without a country. A face they couldn't trace. A man without a chance. An enigma.”
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Details
Release Date: 10/15/1982
Runtime: 122 minutes
Languages: German, English
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
00Production
Companies: Goldcrest, Archerwest, Filmcrest Productions, International Film Investors, M.G. Films, Peroquet
Countries: France, United Kingdom
Where to watch · US
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DanDare
Enigma is a complex espionage thriller with a few twists and turns. The CIA find out that the Soviets plan to kill 5 defectors on Christmas Day. They get former defector, Holbeck (Martin Sheen) to infiltrate East Berlin to steal the scrambler of the Enigma machine used by the Soviets for communication. However both the KGB and the East German government are on to Holbeck who meets his former associates and former lover Karen Reinhardt (Brigitte Fossey) to help him with him task. KGB agent Dimitri Vasilikov (Sam Neill) is seduced by Reinhardt and it seems there is a genuine attraction between the two. On the other hand the CIA have been using Holbeck. It is a well made thriller which gets better as it goes on. It can be hard to follow and lumpy in places.
