Passion of Spies

Passion of Spies
Directed by Yefim Gamburg
Written by Lazar Lagin
Music by Georgiy Martynyuk
Cinematography Mikhail Druyan
Production
company
Release date
1967 (1967)
Running time
20 min.
Country Soviet Union USSR
Language Russian

Passion of Spies (Russian: Шпионские страсти, Shpionskiye strasti) is a 1967 Soyuzmultfilm's animated black-and-white film directed by Yefim Gamburg.[1] It parodies spy and detective fiction clichés[1] and got a status of a cult film.[2]

Plot

In Part 1, a foreign Intelligence agency chief Shtampf is suffering from a toothache. After he finds out that a wonderful dentist's chair was invented in the Soviet Union, so he develops a plan of stealing it. Part 2 tells the story of chauffeur's idle son Kolychev, who cannot pay the restaurant bill. He has to organize the dentist's chair's destruction in return.

Animators

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Russian animation in letters and figures. Movies. Shpionskiye strasti" [Российская анимация в буквах и фигурах. Фильмы. "Шпионские страсти"] (in Russian). Animator.ru. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  2. Королев, Роман (September 17, 2010). "Шпионские страсти", режиссер Ефим Гамбург, 1967 (in Russian). Forbes. Retrieved 13 March 2013.


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