Secret Agent

Director: Boris Barnet

1947 / 87min / DCP

Following the exploits of Red Army Major Fedotov (Pavel Kadochnikov) as he goes behind enemy lines in occupied Ukraine to infiltrate the Nazi high command, Barnet’s crackerjack spy thriller, in which he himself turns in a slyly shaded performance as a Nazi commandant, would prove one of the biggest and most enduring popular successes of his career. Shot at the Kyiv Film Studios with the legendary Ukrainian cameraman Daniil Demutsky (Arsenal, Earth), the angular precision of Barnet’s nationalist victory lap earns it a place alongside the most rousing wartime propaganda films from England and the United States.

Introduction by programmer Edo Choi on Sunday, March 29th

Part of Boris Barnet A Soviet Poet