Topaz
Topaz is a 1969 American espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Karin Dor, John Vernon, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and John Forsythe. Based on the 1967 novel of the same title by Leon Uris, the film is about a French intelligence agent (Stafford) who becomes entangled in Cold War politics before the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and then the breakup of an international Soviet spy ring.
Plot
In Copenhagen in 1962, a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, Boris Kusenov, defects to the West. During debriefing, CIA agent Mike Nordstrom learns that Soviet missiles with nuclear warheads will be placed in Cuba.
Awards
Cast
- Abel Fernandez
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Ann Doran
- Ben Wright
- Carlos Rivas
- Che Guevara
- Claude Jade
- Dany Robin
- Edmon Ryan
- Fidel Castro
- Frederick Stafford
- Gregory Gaye
- John Forsythe
- John van Dreelen
- John Vernon
- Karin Dor
- Lew Brown
- Michel Piccoli
- Michel Subor
- Philippe Noiret
- Roberto Contreras
- Roscoe Lee Browne
- Sándor Szabó
- Sonja Kolthoff
- Tina Hedström
More details
| author | Leon Uris Samuel A. Taylor |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Denmark |
| director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| editor | William H. Ziegler |
| genre | thriller |
| keywords | black community british version capture cia cia agent cocktail party copenhagen cuban revolution debrief family trip french intelligence service french resistance harlem havana airport help hotel theresa intelligence officer kgb kidnap list of intelligence agencies of france married nato new york city nuclear war old friends soviet soviet spy soviet union spy ring west |
| musicBy | Maurice Jarre |
| producer | Alfred Hitchcock |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| theme | noir spy |