Secret Agent (1996)

Secret Agent (1996) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
91 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Christopher Hampton

Written By:
Joseph Conrad
Christopher Hampton

Actors:
Bob Hoskins ..... Verloc
Patricia Arquette ..... Winnie
Gerard Depardieu ..... Ossipon
Jim Broadbent ..... Chief Inspector Heat
Christian Bale ..... Stevie
Roger Hammond ..... Mr. Michaelis
Eddie Izzard ..... Vladimir
Ralph Nossek ..... Yundt
Neville Phillips ..... Ticket clerk
Elizabeth Spriggs ..... Winnie's mother
Peter Vaughan ..... The Driver
Julian Wadham ..... The Assistant Commissioner

Synopsis:

It is 1886, and Verloc, an agent provocateur who is secretly working for the police and the Russian Embassy while ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho, is required by his masters to betray the anarchists in some spectacular way. The plan goes horribly wrong and the repercussions are dramatically different from those intended by Verloc. Nostromo: The attempt to rescue the silver of the San Tome mine from the hands of yet another revolutionary dictator tests the characters of the Goulds, inheritors of the Latin American mine, and of the indispensable and trustworthy Nostromo himself. In the swirling world of Costaguana, as in the London of The Secret Agent, the psychology of individuals in the most extreme cirumstances reflects the fears and hopes of the time.

London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian goverment, an agent provacateur of sorts, while simultaneously providing information to the London police, specifically Chief Inspector Heat. When the new Russian ambassador demands he prove his worth or lose his salary, Verloc sets off a tragic chain of events that involves his pretty young wife Winnie, her retarded brother Stevie, and a figure called the Professor, whose fascination with explosives and destruction makes him the person to call on when Verloc needs a bomb.

Based on Joseph Conrad's novel about a quiet English shopkeeper, a secret spy for the Russian Embassy, is ordered to plant a bomb that will wreak havoc on the British public.

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