An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Acting
Dujardin's whispered Russian — absurdly committed, weirdly magnetic.
Cinematography
Moscow and Monaco shimmer with cold wealth; every frame is a power move.
Direction
Rochant trusts silence over exposition — rare in spy thrillers.
Director
Éric Rochant
Jean Dujardin
Moïse / Grégory Liubov
Cécile de France
Alice
Tim Roth
Ivan Rostovsky
Émilie Dequenne
Sandra
Oleksiy Horbunov
Khorzov
John Lynch
Joshua
Dean Constantin
Joshua's colleague - CIA
Dmitri Nazarov
Inzirillo
Branka Katić
Ava
Prasanna Puwanarajah
Saïd
Éric Viellard
De Maux
Wendell Pierce
Bob
John Scurti
Honey
Vicky Krieps
Olga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dujardin learned Russian phonetically for months; native speakers noted his accent sounded 'authentically generational,' like a Soviet-educated officer.
The film premiered at Cannes 2013 as Franco-Russian co-production — then geopolitics intervened, and it became a time capsule of pre-Crimea Moscow glamour.
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