Hugh Burden

Classic 1942 war film from Powell and Pressburger, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 1943 Academy Awards (the same year they were also nominated for the 49th Parallel script).

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.