Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
Directed byYves Ciampi
Written byYves Ciampi
Hans-Otto Meissner
Tsutomu Sawamura
Produced byJacques Bar
StarringThomas Holtzmann
Mario Adorf
CinematographyEmile Vilerbue
Toshio Ubukata
Music bySerge Nigg
Production
companies
Shôchiku Eiga
Terra Films
Silver Films
Release date
  • March 29, 1961 (1961-03-29)
Running time
129 minutes
CountriesFrance
Japan
LanguagesFrench
Japanese
Box office39.2 million tickets
(Soviet Union)[1]

Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? is a 1961 French–Japanese drama film directed by Yves Ciampi.[2] The original French-language name is Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge?

Plot

Since 1937, Richard Sorge was his in the German embassy in Tokyo. He was known as a doctor of sociology, who did not shun to become a front-line correspondent, as a pleasant, erudite interlocutor, in a word, as a true Aryan. They didn't know only one thing: behind his reporter's activities there was a secret mission, establishing contact with Moscow through a resident in Hong Kong.

Cast

Background

Since 1939, Sorge and Clausen had sent over 141 radio messages and numerous microfilms to Moscow. To his arrest on 18 October 1941, the observation of Japanese exile communists led by the Japanese secret police Tokko. In the course of which one of his contacts was exposed. On November 7, 1944, the anniversary of the October Revolution, Richard Sorge was hanged in Japan.[3]

The German diplomat and writer Hans-Otto Meissner plays in the film itself.[4]

References

  1. ↑ ""Кто вы, доктор Зорге?" (Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge?)". Kinopoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  2. ↑ An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
  3. ↑ "Again The Sorge Case (Published 1964)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2022-12-01.
  4. ↑ Кто вы, доктор Зорге?
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