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Enigma (1982)

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

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From Time Out Film Guide

In this disastrous mid-Atlantic spy thriller, Sheen plays an expatriate American who grew up behind the Iron Curtain and now makes propaganda broadcasts for Free World Radio in Paris. Learning that the KGB has a plan to assassinate five leading Soviet dissidents now living in Europe, the CIA recruit Sheen to obtain a crucial scrambling device fitted to a Communist word processor in East Berlin. Sheen changes his appearance almost as often as John Briley's script changes its mind (about every five minutes), and both of them are forever rushing down blind alleys in search of an excitement which continually eludes them.

Author: NF

Time Out Film Guide

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Cast & crew

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Producer: Peter Shaw

Cast: Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey, Michel Lonsdale, Derek Jacobi, Frank Finlay full cast

Genre(s): Thrillers, War

Duration: 122 mins


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