Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
1961 film by Yves Ciampi
- March 29, 1961 (1961-03-29)
Running time
Japan
Japanese
(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
- Thomas Holtzmann as Richard Sorge
- Mario Adorf as Max Clausen
- Akira Yamauchi as Hotsumi Ozaki
- Jacques Berthier as Serge Branovski
- Kōji Nanbara as Yotoku Miyagi
- Nadine Basile as Anna Clausen
- Keiko Kishi as Yuki Sakurai
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
- ^ ""Кто вы, доктор Зорге?" (Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge?)". Kinopoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 27 March 2022.
- ^ An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
- ^ "Again The Sorge Case (Published 1964)". The New York Times. 11 October 1964. Archived from the original on 2022-12-01.
- ^ Кто вы, доктор Зорге?
External links
- Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? at IMDb
- Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge? on Unifrance
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