Telefon

Telefon

1977 · 102 min · EN · 6.6 (92 votes)
Dir. Don Siegel · Starring Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel, Patrick Magee · Music Lalo Schifrin

They'll do anything to stop Telefon. The operation that can trigger 51 human time bombs.

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Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.

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A chilling Cold War thriller that plunges you into a world of deep-cover agents and psychological manipulation. The constant threat of sleeper cells activated by a simple phrase creates a pervasive sense of dread and paranoia.

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