Teheran 43

Teheran 43
Soviet film poster
Directed by Alexander Alov,
Vladimir Naumov
Written by Alexander Alov,
Vladimir Naumov
Starring Natalya Belokhvostikova,
Igor Kostolevsky,
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Alain Delon,
Claude Jade
Music by Georges Garvarentz, Mieczysław Weinberg
Distributed by Mosfilm
Release date
  • July 1981 (1981-07)
Running time
 192 minutes
Country Soviet Union
France
Switzerland
Language Russian
French
Box office 94,335 admissions (France)[1]

Teheran 43 is a 1981 USSR-France-Switzerland drama film made by Mosfilm, Mediterraneo Cine and Pro Dis Film, directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov. It is based on events around Operation Long Jump, the 1943 attempt by Nazi Germany to assassinate Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Tehran Conference.

The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1981 and had 47.5 million viewers. It won the Golden Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival in 1981.[2]

Alternative titles

The film was shown internationally under the following names:

  • Тегеран-43 (USSR)
  • Assassination Attempt (USA)
  • Teheran 43: Spy Ring (USA)
  • The Exterminator (Australia)
  • Eliminaattori (Finland)
  • Killer sind immer unterwegs (West Germany)
  • Nido di spie (Italy)
  • Téhéran 43, Nid d'espions (France)
  • Teerã 43 (Brazil)
  • تهران ۴۳ (Iran)

Plot

Teheran 43 starts in 1980 in Paris. The memories of hero Andrei take the story back to 1943. The Germans planned to assassinate the three men. 37 years later, the German agent Max lives with Françoise, a young Parisian woman, who hides him. But another Nazi, Scherner, is hunting down Max who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max trusts Françoise, but he doesn't know that she works for Scherner. Another plot in the movie is the romance between Andrei and the French woman Marie in 1943, followed in 1980.

Max Richard (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan), an assassin of the Nazis, who was 43 years ago hired to assassinate Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Tehran Conference, is holed up in today's Paris at the young french woman Françoise (Claude Jade). In flashbacks, he describes Françoise who claims to be a neighbor in his apartment because she mistook the door, the assassination attempts. Max was brought in 1943 to Tehran as a funeral director of a previously murdered Persian. Max also kills the lawyer of the dead, Gérard Simon (Gleb Strizhenov). But Simon's interpreter Marie (Natalya Belokhvostikova) and the young Russian Secret agent Andrei (Igor Kostolevsky) get him on the loose. The two have no time for romance, but thwart the assassination. They can arrest a fake photographer (Georges Géret). The man who posed as a photographer and cinematographer "Dennis Pew" had a gun in his movie camera. Andrei, who cares for the safety of the young woman, sends Marie, who is in love with him, to France. They do not see each other again.

When Max wants to publish his memoirs and documents in Paris today with the help of the lawyer Legraine (Curd Jürgens), Andrei travels to Paris. At an auction of Max' documents in London, Andrej sees a young woman who is very similar to Marie. She is Marie's daughter Nathalie. Françoise - meanwhile Max's mistress - also pursues her own goals. She claims to work for his former client Scherner (Albert Filozov) and to have spared Max only out of pity. In Paris, the paths of Marie and Andreiand of Marie's daughter Nathalie and police inspector Foche (Alain Delon), who chases the former masterminds around Scherner, intersect. During a plane hijacking initiated by Scherner, Andrei meets Nathalie again. Foche, who wants to protect Nathalie's mother, is assassinated in the back. Max gets scared when Marie is killed as a former witness after a short reunion with Andrei. Then Françoise takes him to a new hiding place. Andrei visits Nathalie and learns from her that Marie loved him all those years. She told her daughter about swimming together and told her about the dolphins, but those were just her dreams. In his new hideout Max is shot by Scherner's men. Legraine interrogates Scherner and Françoise; possibly he will negotiate with them about the manuscript. Andrei travels back to Moscow.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music score for the movie was composed by Georges Garvarentz and Mieczysław Weinberg. Charles Aznavour's theme song "Une Vie D'amour" (Russian: Вечная любовь,Vechnaya lyubov, lit. Eternal love), performed by Aznavour and Mireille Mathieu, became very popular in Russia as well as abroad. Its popularity is attributed to the success of the film, and today is considered by many to be one of Aznavour's best songs.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Box office information for Alain Delon films at Box office story
  2. ↑ "12th Moscow International Film Festival (1981)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
  3. ↑ Charles Aznavour's Greatest Hits
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