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The Devil's Agent
The Devil's Agent is a 1962 drama film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Peter van Eyck, Marianne Koch, Christopher Lee and Macdonald Carey. It was a co-production between Britain, West Germany and the Republic of Ireland. It was based on a 1956 novel by Hans Habe. It is set in East Germany during the Cold War.
Plot
Mild-mannered Viennese wine merchant George Droste (Peter van Eyck), an intelligence expert during the Second World War, unexpectedly encounters old friend Baron Von Staub (Christopher Lee), and spends a weekend with him on his estate in the Soviet zone. The two revive a friendship interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub's sister asks Droste to transport a small package to a friend in West Germany, the bewildered Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games, at first becoming an unwilling dupe for the Soviet Union, and then retaliating by offering his services to a US intelligence agency.
More details
| author | Robert Westerby |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Germany |
| director | John Paddy Carstairs |
| editor | Tom Simpson |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | intelligence agency old friend second world war set up soviet union united states intelligence community us intelligence west germany world war world war ii |
| musicBy | Phil Green |
| producer | Emmet Dalton |
| productionCompany | CCC Filmkunst Emmet Dalton Productions |
| publisher | British Lion Film Corporation |
| theme | spy |