Telefon
Telefon is a 1977 spy film directed by Don Siegel and starring Charles Bronson, Lee Remick and Donald Pleasence. The screenplay by Peter Hyams and Stirling Silliphant is based on the 1975 novel by Walter Wager.
Plot
After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union planted a number of long-term, deep-cover sleeper agents all over the United States, who were so thoroughly brainwashed that even they did not know they were agents. They can be activated only by a special code phrase, a line from the Robert Frost poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" – followed by the agent's real first name. Their mission was to sabotage crucial parts of the civil and military infrastructure in the event of war.
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| author | Peter Hyams Stirling Silliphant |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Apalachicola Calgary International Airport Denver Finland George Bush Center for Intelligence Great Falls Houston Los Angeles Lubyanka Building Moscow New Mexico Saint Petersburg Santa Monica |
| director | Don Siegel |
| editor | Douglas Stewart |
| events | Cold War |
| genre | thriller |
| keywords | brainwash counterintelligence cuban missile crisis détente double agent even follow happen kgb one by one photographic memory political leader robert frost sleeper agent soviet union stopping by woods on a snowy evening suicide write |
| musicBy | Lalo Schifrin |
| producer | James B. Harris |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| publisher | Cinema International Corporation United Artists |
| recordedAt | Finland |
| theme | memory psychological thriller spy |