Movie
Spy, Stand Up
Overview
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
Details
- Release date
- 1982-01-27
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Cathala Productions, TF1 Films Production
- Country
- France, Switzerland
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Lino Ventura as Sébastien Grenier
- Michel Piccoli as Jean-Paul Chance
- Bruno Cremer as Alain Richard
- Bernard Fresson as Henri Marchand
- Marc Mazza as Ramos Bavila
- Roger Jendly as Commissioner Lohmann
- Heinz Bennent as Meyer
- Krystyna Janda as Anna Gretz
- Beate Kopp as Grenier's secretary
- Christian Baltauss as Librarian
- Kurt Bigger as Alfred Zimmer
- Jean-Paul Franky as Rudy 'la blonde'
Crew
- Yves Boisset - Director
- Yves Boisset - Writer
- Michel Audiard - Writer
- Claude Veillot - Writer
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