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Actors: Martin Sheen, Brigitte Fossey, Sam Neill, Derek Jacobi, Michael Lonsdale
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Enigma (1982) |
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ENIGMA is a French-British production directed by Jeannot Szwarc in 1982.
Martin Sheen stars as Alex Holbeck, a German defector working as a journalist in Paris. He's asked by the C.I.A. to go to East Berlin and steal an exemplary of the Enigma encoder. With this encoder, the C.I.A. says the American specialists would be able to learn the names of the five dissidents the K.G.B. has planned to murder for Christmas.
In East Berlin, Alex is helped by his former girl-friend, the lawyer Karen Reinhardt (Fossey), who agrees to hide him in her apartment. But nothing goes as it should have been. From the beginning, the German police has been aware of Alex's presence in Berlin and Moscow has even sent its supercop Dimitri Vasilikov to Berlin in order to help its allies. Alex asks Karen to seduce Dimitri and tries to find a way to come near an encoder but the police is coming closer everyday and all those who help Alex are soon arrested and tortured.
In fact, the C.I.A. does already have the enigma encoder but the agency wants the Russians to believe the contrary. That's the reason they've sent Alex to Berlin and discreetly announced his arrival to the German police. But Alex is a master of disguise and finally manages to steal an encoder. Meanwhile, Dimitri has finally understood Alex's subtle scheme and is right behind him.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Enigma (1982) |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
Romance
Yes
The terrorist enemy is...
- commies!
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) long wavy
Body type
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- government investigator
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Russian
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Unusual forms of death
- boiling
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- book
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