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Synopsis: The KGB is looking for one of their people, a man named Dalchimsky because he has stolen something important but, unfortunately, he manages to get through the border. Later in the U.S. some seemingly ordinary people after receiving a phone call go out and destroy key American military installations. Back in the U.S.S.R. General Strelsky and Colonel Malchenko send for Grigori Borzov, a KGB agent who has been to the U.S. on missions before. They inform him that after the U-2 incident in fear of the possibility that a war with the U.S. will occur; they were part of an operation called TELEFON that involved recruiting young agents and then brainwashing them into believing that they are Americans. They would assume the identity of an American who died a long time ago and who would be their age now. They would be situated in a city that is near or where a key U.S. military installation is located. They were also programmed to destroy upon receiving the command phrase. They have been fortunat
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Don Siegel
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
PG
Year:
1977
102 min
360 Views


Exact cause of the crash

is not yet known...

...but the Naval spokesman

reported no damage occurred...

...to the highly sensitive equipment

on the base.

Did we want remote controI, sir?

- woMAN:
Operator.

- Uh...

I wish to speak with Mr. Mark Peters

in Akron, ohio.

The area code is 216.

The number 788-8837.

You and you. over here.

The rest of you pay close attention.

what is the best chance

of controlling the puck?

To be quicker than your opponent.

- How do you ensure that?

- watch what he does and beat him to it.

If you see him do it, you'll be too late.

Don't look at him

and don't watch the referee.

If you watch the referee drop the puck,

again you'll be too late.

Keep your eyes on the ice.

continue play.

Major Borzov, coloneI Malchenko wants

to see you immediately at headquarters.

BoRzo V:

I'll be with you as soon as I've changed.

MALcHENKo:

First, Harry Bascom.

January 17th.

Just seven days ago,

Bascom destroyed himself...

...and a storage center for nerve gas

in the American state of colorado.

Particularly stupid act.

All their cw inventory

had been removed 10 years ago.

carI Hassler, January 20th.

He was shot down and killed

while violating restricted air space...

...above a NavaI communication center.

Mark Peters, on the same day...

...blew himself up and an ammunition dump

outside Akron, ohio.

Tell me, major. In all the world,

who is the most secret agent?

Anyone who manages to stay secret.

But there's an even more ideaI agent.

one who doesn't know he is an agent.

- Anyone care for tea?

- Yes, thank you.

- Service for three, Dimitri.

- Yes, sir.

STRELSKY:
cleopatra says

there will be snow from the west.

Tell me, major. Have you ever seen

drug-induced hypnosis?

I think I just did.

when you have finished your discussion

with the major, I want that back directly.

certainly, generaI.

Meantime, do not let it out of your sight.

Just after the U-2 spy flights,

we started the counter operation.

we thought they were looking for targets.

A nuclear confrontation seemed imminent.

we gave the operation a code name.

Telefon.

- I never heard of it.

- You were never meant to.

Telefon was more than top secret.

Much more.

It was a network of the finest deep-cover

agents any nation ever produced.

They're to infiltrate, burrow deep...

...and wait for the signaI to strike

in the event of nuclear war.

Happily for all of us,

we did not have to activate.

we recruited all the best

English-speaking students we could find.

we drilled them in every detaiI

of American life.

Then we handpicked the cream

for drug-assisted hypnosis.

when we'd finished,

each of them really believed...

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Peter Hyams

Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer, known for directing Capricorn One, the 1981 science fiction thriller Outland, 2010 (the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey), the 1986 action/comedy Running Scared, the comic book adaptation Timecop, the action film Sudden Death (both starring Jean-Claude Van Damme), and the horror films The Relic and End of Days. more…

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