Passion of Spies

1967 film

1967 (1967)

Running time

20 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

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 learning about a wonderful, state-of-the-art dentist's chair invented in the Soviet Union, he develops a plan to steal it. His top agents pass information between each other, but Soviet agents catch them unaware, ending with a car chase where a musician-turned-chauffeur is injured. Part 2 tells the story of the chauffeur's idle son Kolychev, who tricks his parents out of money to attend a fancy restaurant. He is seduced by a foreign agent and tricked into buying a large bill, then convinced to plant a bomb beneath the dentist's chair in exchange for the bill being waived.

Animators

Tatyana Pomerantseva^[1]
Elvira Maslova
Ivan Davydov
Joseph Kuroyan
Renata Mirenkova
Olga Orlova
Dmitriy Anpilov
Natalia Bogomolova
Antonina Aleshina
Yuriy Butyrin

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "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.
^ Королев, Роман (September 17, 2010). "Шпионские страсти", режиссер Ефим Гамбург, 1967. Forbes (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-12-31. Retrieved 13 March 2013.