Red King, White Knight (1989)

Directors

Geoff Murphy

Cast

Tom Skerritt, Max von Sydow, Helen Mirren, Tom Bell

The story

The CIA is informed of an IRA assassin being hired by the KGB to kill the reformist Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for several years, to go to the Soviet satellite state and check the reliability of Vlasek, the plot informant. Stoner, an ex-alcoholic with financial troubles, is not told of the assassination plot but agrees to go despite grieving the suicide of his wife there 10 years earlier. Stoner only learns of the plot and runs into difficulty when Vlasek is killed trying to leave the country with him.

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