The Defector
Oct 19, 1966 | IMDB 5.5
100 min Watch NowDrama, Thriller
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters.
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