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Love Nights in the Taiga

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Love Nights in the Taiga
Directed byHarald Philipp
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyHelmut Meewes
Edited byIngeborg Taschner
Music byManfred Hübler
Production
company
Franz Seitz Filmproduktion
Distributed byNora-Filmverleih
Release date
  • 5 October 1967 (1967-10-05)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Love Nights in the Taiga (German: Liebesnächte in der Taiga) is a 1967 West German thriller film directed by Harald Philipp and starring Thomas Hunter, Marie Versini and Stanislav Ledinek.[1] It is also known by the alternative title of Code Name Kill.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Stratil. It is an adaptation of the 1966 novel of the same title by Heinz G. Konsalik.

Synopsis

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At the height of the Cold War, the CIA send a Russian-speaking Baltic German to the Soviet Union disguised as a Swiss fashion journalist. His real mission is to gather intelligence on a missile base concealed in the taiga forests of Siberia. He receives assistance from a Soviet woman who falls in love with him.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Cowie & Elley p.148

Bibliography

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  • Peter Cowie & Derek Elley. World Filmography: 1967. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977.
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