Triple Agent

(2004)Directed by Éric Rohmer115 minThriller, Drama
A moving epic of love and betrayal...

The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace the aging Général Dobrinsky soon. Fiodor's Greek wife, Arsinoé, paints and stays away from politics, befriending Communist neighbors. Her health declines; the attentive Fiodor arranges care and, against the backdrop of Stalin's Great Purge, considers his options. He plays a chess game in which love of country, love of Arsinoé, ideology, petty jealousies, and the machinations of power roil in matters of life and death.

Serge Renkoas Fiodor
Dimitri Rafalskyas général Dobrinsky
Nathalia Krouglyas la Générale
Vitaliy Cheremetas Alexis Tcherepnine
Jeanne Ramburas Dany
Georges Benoîtas Le commissaire français
Laurent Le Doyen
Aleksandr Cherkasovas amiral Galinine