Red King, White Knight (1989)

Danish title: Operation: Dræb Gorbatjov

Genre(s): Drama/Romance/Thriller

Runtime: 86min. (1h. 26min.)

Language: English

My rating: Not Yet Rated

Cast: (16 - show/hide all)

Tom Skerritt	...	Stoner
Max von Sydow	...	Szaz
Helen Mirren	...	Anna
Tom Bell	...	Tulayev
Neil Dudgeon	...	Vlasek
Gavan O'Herlihy	...	Clancy
Barry Corbin	...	Bentick
Clarke Peters	...	Jones
Lou Hirsch	...	Baetz
Kerry Shale	...	Viktor
David de Keyser	...	Director
Kenneth Nelson	...	Senator
Shane Rimmer	...	General
Boris Isarov	...	Soviet Advisor
Garrick Hagon	...	Economist
Gay Baynes	...	Ecologist

Crew:

Geoff Murphy	...	Direction
Ron Hutchinson	...	Script
John Scott	...	Music

Plot:

The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect