Les espions

Sep 19 1957 Not Rated 2h 5m
Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.

Plot

A psychiatrist, desperate for money to keep his faltering practice running, makes a deal with a spy to hide a mysterious person in his clinic in return for a million francs. As soon as the deal is struck his place is overrun by spies from both East and West, all in search of a renegade nuclear scientist. The psychiatrist's own sanity starts to break down as he submitted to unmitigated surveillance and deception.

Written by

Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jérôme Géronimi, Egon Hostovsky

Directed by

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Production Countries

Italy, France

Production Companies

Véra Films, Filmsonor, Pretoria Film

Languages

Français

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
1,135
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA