Night Flight from Moscow or Le Serpent is a French thriller made in 1973. It was produced and directed by Henri Verneuil. The music was written by Ennio Morricone. Aleksey Teodorovic Vlassov is a high ranking KGB official who defects while in France. He has with him highly-classified information as part of a deal with Western intelligence for his arrival in the United States. The debriefing is held at Langley by DCI Allan Davies and MI6 representative Philip Boyle . Vlassov hands off a list of enemy agents in Western Europe including a deep penetration into NATO. Davies wants to begin... operations to take down the agents; however, those on the list suddenly begin to die off. The CIA also has suspicions over the authenticity of Vlassov's claims. The CIA discovers that a defection photo of Vlassov was taken in the Soviet Union, not in Turkey, judging from the contours of Mt. Ararat in the background. Vlassov also fails a lie detector test after he angrily protests about sexual related questions asked by the CIA during the test.
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| Release date: | 1973 |
| Directed by: | Henri Verneuil |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 113 Minutes |
| Producer: | Henri Verneuil |
| Music by: | Ennio Morricone |
| Screenplay by: | Gilles Perrault |
| Genre: | Thriller |