Overview
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
Fun facts
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Filming locations
Filmed in Zurich and Polybahn
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Setting
Set in Munich and Zurich
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Music
Music by Ennio Morricone
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Jean Boffety
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Michel AudiardWriter
- Claude VeillotWriter
- Yves BoissetWriter
- George MarksteinNovel
- Original title
- Espion, lève-toi
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 27, 1982
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- France, Switzerland
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In the United States
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Cast
Lino VenturaSébastien Grenier
Michel PiccoliJean-Paul Chance
Bruno CremerAlain Richard
Bernard FressonHenri Marchand
Marc MazzaRamos Bavila
Roger JendlyCommissioner Lohmann
Heinz BennentMeyer
Krystyna JandaAnna Gretz- Beate KoppGrenier's secretary
Christian BaltaussLibrarian
Kurt BiggerAlfred Zimmer- Jean-Paul FrankyRudy 'la blonde'
Yves BoissetRichard's assistant- Daniel PlancherelInspector Vogel
Philippe BrizardGrenier employee
Max MoorDieter Krauss- Pierre BoffetyPostman
- Jean Reney
Robert DalbanNarrator (voice) (uncredited)
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