Love Nights in the Taiga

Produced byStarringCinematographyHelmut MeewesEdited byIngeborg TaschnerMusic byManfred HüblerDistributed byNora-Filmverleih105 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

Love Nights in the Taiga (German: Liebesnächte in der Taiga) is a 1967 West German thriller film directed by Harald Philipp and starring Thomas Hunter, Marie Versini and Stanislav Ledinek.^[1] It is also known by the alternative title of Code Name Kill.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Stratil. It is an adaptation of the 1966 novel of the same title by Heinz G. Konsalik.

Synopsis

At the height of the Cold War, the CIA send a Russian-speaking Baltic German to the Soviet Union disguised as a Swiss fashion journalist. His real mission is to gather intelligence on a missile base concealed in the taiga forests of Siberia. He receives assistance from a Soviet woman who falls in love with him.

Cast

• Thomas Hunter as Frank Heller
• Marie Versini as Ludmilla Barankova
• Stanislav Ledinek as Colonel Karpuchin
• Ivan Desny as Colonel Kirk
• Rolf Boysen [de] as Karpuchin
• Biggi Freyer as Marta Barinskaya
• Hellmut Lange as Captain Jimmy Braddock
• Walter Barnes as Jurij
• Magda Konopka as Bibi Randall
• Christiane Nielsen as Tanja
• Kurd Pieritz as Kusnezoff
• Sandra Prinsloo as Nadja
• Marius Weyers as Markjoff

References

Bibliography

• Peter Cowie & Derek Elley. World Filmography: 1967. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977.

External links

• Love Nights in the Taiga at IMDb