Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
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Directed by | Yves Ciampi |
Written by | Yves Ciampi Hans-Otto Meissner Tsutomu Sawamura |
Produced by | Jacques Bar |
Starring | Thomas Holtzmann Mario Adorf |
Cinematography | Emile Vilerbue Toshio Ubukata |
Music by | Serge Nigg |
Production companies | Shôchiku Eiga Terra Films Silver Films |
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Running time | 129 minutes |
Countries | France Japan |
Languages | French Japanese |
Box office | 39.2 million tickets (Soviet Union)[1] |
Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? is a 1961 French–Japanese drama film directed by Yves Ciampi.[2] The original French-language name is Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge?
Plot
[edit]Since 1937, Richard Sorge was his in the German embassy in Tokyo. He was known as a doctor of sociology, who did not shun to become a front-line correspondent, as a pleasant, erudite interlocutor, in a word, as a true Aryan. They didn't know only one thing: behind his reporter's activities there was a secret mission, establishing contact with Moscow through a resident in Hong Kong.
Cast
[edit]- Thomas Holtzmann as Richard Sorge
- Mario Adorf as Max Clausen
- Akira Yamauchi as Hotsumi Ozaki
- Jacques Berthier as Serge Branovski
- Kōji Nanbara as Yotoku Miyagi
- Nadine Basile as Anna Clausen
- Keiko Kishi as Yuki Sakurai
Background
[edit]Since 1939, Sorge and Clausen had sent over 141 radio messages and numerous microfilms to Moscow. To his arrest on 18 October 1941, the observation of Japanese exile communists led by the Japanese secret police Tokko. In the course of which one of his contacts was exposed. On November 7, 1944, the anniversary of the October Revolution, Richard Sorge was hanged in Japan.[3]
The German diplomat and writer Hans-Otto Meissner plays in the film itself.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ ""Кто вы, доктор Зорге?" (Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge?)". Kinopoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 27 March 2022.
- ^ An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
- ^ "Again The Sorge Case (Published 1964)". The New York Times. 11 October 1964. Archived from the original on 2022-12-01.
- ^ Кто вы, доктор Зорге?
External links
[edit]- 1961 films
- 1960s French-language films
- 1960s Japanese-language films
- Shochiku films
- French historical drama films
- Japanese historical drama films
- 1960s historical drama films
- French spy drama films
- 1960s spy drama films
- Spy films based on actual events
- Japanese multilingual films
- French multilingual films
- 1960s multilingual films
- 1961 drama films
- French black-and-white films
- Japanese black-and-white films
- 1960s Japanese films
- 1960s French films
- French-language drama films