The Secret Agent's Blunder
Directed byVenyamin Dorman
Written byOleg Shmelyov
Vladimir Vostokov
Produced byArkady Kuslansky
StarringGeorgiy Zhzhonov
Mikhail Nozhkin
Oleg Zhakov
CinematographyMikhail Goichberg
Release date
  • 7 October 1968 (1968-10-07)
Running time
142 min
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Secret Agent's Blunder (Russian: Ошибка резидента, romanized: Oshibka rezidenta), also translated as Resident's Mistake, is a 1968 (or 1966?) Soviet spy film directed by Venyamin Dorman.[1]

It is the first of four films based around the same character, the spy Mikhail Tulyev, played by Georgy Zhzhyonov. The sequel, Secret Agent's Destiny (or Resident's Way) was released in 1970, with Resident Return (Resident Is Back) in 1982 and End of the Resident Project in 1986.[2][3]

Plot

Part one. Under Old Cover (По старой легенде)

Mikhail Tulyev, the son of a former spy and White Russian count, is sent by West German intelligence to collect Soviet nuclear secrets. He travels in Russia under the name Mikhail Zarokov, taken from a POW he had met in the Great Patriotic War, with the cover of looking for his supposedly lost sister. Tuylev stays with Dembovich (Oleg Zhakov), a bitter former German agent and works as a taxi driver, striking up a romantic relationship with the company's dispatcher, Maria Nikolayevna (Eleonora Shashkova).

Through Dembovitch, Tuylev recruits an infamous thief known as "Snipe" to smuggle his findings. However, "Snipe" is in actuality a KGB officer named Pavel Sinitsyn (Mikhail Nozhkin). Sinitsyn's superior, General Sergeyev (Yefim Kopelyan), having been informed of Tuylev's mission, orders Sinitsyn to fake his defection when he is to hand over the samples to Tuylev's contact, Leonid Krug (Vadim Zakharchenko). Subsequently, he is to act as a double agent. When the delivery happens, Pavel and Krug are attacked by a Maritime Border Troops ship. Despite Krug being shot in the leg, the two manage to escape to neutral waters.

Part two. Snipe's Return (Возвращение Бекаса)

After his successful escape with Krug into West Germany, Sinistyn is subjected to various attempted brainwashing techniques as Tuylev's superiors attempt to recruit him as an agent. Pavel is eventually accepted as an agent and sent to work as a sailor on a merchant vessel until he is called to action again. Elsewhere, Tuylev is forced to flee after a guilt-ridden Dembovich commits suicide and sends a letter to the KGB revealing Tuylev's identity and his complicity in the plot. After setting fire to Dembovitch's house, Tuylev, pursued by the KGB, switches cars, escapes, and manages to leave behind a considerable amount of money for Maria, who is pregnant with his child.

One year later, Sinistyn is ordered to return to the Soviet Union in order to resume contact with Tuylev, long since inactive and now living under the name Stanislav Kurnakov. Pavel is also asked to relay news of the death of Tuylev's father in Paris to him (In the following films, it is revealed that Tuylev's superiors orchestrated it with Tuylev's protégé Karl Brockman). After meeting with Tuylev, Sinistyn suggests to him that they go fishing the next morning. Tuylev obliges, and is apprehended by the KGB. As Tuylev is escorted away, Sergeyev then orders Sinistyn to adopt Tuylev's codename, "Hope" in order to fool his superiors to think Tuylev is still active.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ Информация о фильме — онлайн
  2. ↑ "Georgiy Zhzhonov's Russian Cross". ФОНД РУССКИЙ МИР. 21 March 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  3. ↑ Konets operatsii Rezident at IMDb


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