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Torn Curtain

1966·127 min

Torn Curtain

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Thriller

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

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Michael Armstrong

Sarah Sherman

Countess Kuchinska

Hansjörg Felmy

Heinrich Gerhard

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Alfred Hitchcock

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Torn Curtain (1966) is about during the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

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Alfred Hitchcock directed Torn Curtain (1966).

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