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The Secret Agent is a British film of genre Drama directed by Christopher Hampton released in USA on 8 november 1996 with Bob Hoskins
The Secret Agent (1996)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 8 november 1996
Length 1h35
Directed by Christopher Hampton
OriginUnited-kingdom
Rating56%
The Secret Agent is a 1996 film directed by Christopher Hampton. It stars Bob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette. It is an adaptation of the 1907 Joseph Conrad novel The Secret Agent.
Synopsis
En 1886, le libraire Adolf Verloc héberge au-dessus de sa petite librairie des réunions d'anarchistes, petits-bourgeois, intellectuels et idéalistes. Il est en fait un agent double à la fois au service des Russes et de la police de sa Gracieuse Majesté. Le lendemain d'une réunion, il est convoqué par Vladimir, un attaché de l'ambassade russe, qui vient de concevoir un plan diabolique : un attentat contre l'observatoire de Greenwich. Verloc est chargé de cette mission.Actors
Bob Hoskins
(Verloc)
Patricia Arquette
(Winnie)
Robin Williams
(Assassin (uncredited))
Gérard Depardieu
(Ossipon)
Jim Broadbent
(Chief Inspector Heat)
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