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type
Movie
language
German
duration
145 min
genre
thriller
theme
silent
director
Fritz Lang
Score
5 / 10

Spione (English title: Spies, under which title it was released in the United States) is a 1928 German silent espionage thriller directed by Fritz Lang and co-written with his wife, Thea von Harbou, who also wrote a novel of the same name, published a year later. The film was Lang's penultimate silent film and the first for his own production company; Fritz Lang-film GmbH. As in Lang's Mabuse films, Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), Rudolf Klein-Rogge plays a master criminal aiming for world domination.

Plot

Germany, 1927: Beautiful Russian spy Sonja Baranikowa seduces Colonel Jellusič into betraying his country (an unnamed eastern European one) for her employer, Haghi, a seemingly respectable bank director who is actually the diabolical mastermind of a powerful crime organization. Jason, head of the German Secret Service, gives the task of bringing the mysterious Haghi down to a handsome young agent known only as Number 326, who believes his identity is a secret. Haghi is well aware of him and assigns Sonja to worm her way into 326's confidence; Sonja convinces him that she has just shot a man for trying to rape her. He hides her from the police.

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    author
    director Fritz Lang
    events espionage
    genre horror thriller
    keywords arrest betray build capture circus clown crime organization detach disgrace drown eastern european even kill peace treaty ritual suicide russian spy search secret headquarters secret service seppuku sleep surround train trip young age young woman
    musicBy Werner R. Heymann
    producer Erich Pommer
    publisher Universum Film AG
    theme silent trick