The Contract

TV Series
1988
1h

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A British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.A British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.A British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.

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7.9/10

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Kevin McNally

Johnny Donoghue

• 1988

Bernard Hepton

Henry Carter

• 1988

James Faulkner

Charles Mawby

• 1988

Hans Caninenberg

Professor Guttman

• 1988

Brigitte Karner

Erica Guttman

• 1988

Stephan Meyer-Kohlhoff

Willi Guttman

• 1988

Judy Holt

Lizzie Forsyth

• 1988

Mark Jordon

2nd Soldier

• 1988

Robert Lang

Deputy Under Secretary

• 1988

Donald Pickering

Permanent Under Secretary

• 1988

Katharina Abt

Jutte Harnburg

• 1988

Michael Lees

Consul

• 1988

Seamus O'Neill

Knowles

• 1988

Marion Kracht

Renate

• 1988

John Moreno

Foirot

• 1988

Edward Clayton

Charlie Davies

• 1988

Ann Rye

Mrs. Ferguson

• 1988

Hans Zander

Lentzer

• 1988

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10mikeutopia

Excellent TV movie highlighting spy movements across inner German Border

This was a marvellous 3 part TV movie (3 hours total) about an attempt to bring a Russian missile manufacturer to defect to the west. The plan goes horribly wrong and the spy sent to persuade him over has to take the old man and his daughter across country and through the east German border fence. I've never seen this on video or DVD and sadly it was only aired once back in the mid eighties. Would be worth checking out or a TV re-run if only to highlight what a dangerous thing it was to try and escape from east to west.