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Teheran 43: Spy Ring (1981). Part 1 (English subtitles). تهران ۴۳ Directed by: Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov Date of birth: 26 September 1923, Kharkov, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) Date of death: 12 December 1983, Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) Writing credits: Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov Music by: Georges Garvarentz, Moisey Vaynberg Country: Soviet Union | France | Switzerland Language: Russian | French Color: Color Runtime: 150 minutes Released: 1981 Genre: Action | Drama | Crime This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin a Soviet agent take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran Andrei met a French woman Marie Louni living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later the Nazi officer has been captured – but not for long. Freed by terrorists the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations… Awards: The Golden Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1981. Coproduction of MOSFILM (USSR) PRO DIS FILM AG (Switzerland) MEDITERRANEE CINEMA (France) 1981. Cast: Natalya Belokhvostikova as Marie/Nathalie Igor Kostolevsky as Andrei …