The Kremlin Letter

The Kremlin Letter

1970 · 120 min · EN · PG · 6.0 (34 votes)
Dir. John Huston · Starring Bibi Andersson, Patrick O'Neal, Richard Boone, Nigel Green, Dean Jagger, Lila Kedrova · Music Robert Drasnin

World War III... in an envelope!

DramaActionThriller

When an unauthorized letter is sent to Moscow alleging the U.S. government's willingness to help Russia attack China, former naval officer Charles Rone and his team are sent to retrieve it. They go undercover, successfully reaching out to Erika Kosnov, the wife of a former agent, now married to the head of Russia's secret police. Their plans are interrupted, however, when their Moscow hideout is raided by a cunning politician.

VIBE

A shadowy, paranoid thriller steeped in Cold War mistrust. It feels like a tense game of cat-and-mouse, where every conversation is a potential trap and the stakes are global annihilation. The atmosphere is thick with suspicion and double-crosses.

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