Telefon is a 1977 spy film, starring Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and Lee Remick. It was directed by noted action film director Don Siegel. The film is based on a 1975 novel about mind control, by Walter Wager. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union planted a number of long-term, deep-cover sleeper agents all over the United States, spies so thoroughly brainwashed that even they didn't know they were agents; they could only be activated by a special code phrase . Their mission was to sabotage crucial parts of the civil and military infrastructure as a precursor to a possible... US/USSR active conflict or war. Over twenty years pass, and the Cold War gradually gives way to détente. Nikolai Dalchimsky , a rogue KGB officer, defects to America, taking with him the Telefon Book, which contains the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all the agents. He starts activating them one by one.
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| Release date: | 1977 |
| Directed by: | Don Siegel |
| Runtime: | 102 Minutes |
| Producer: | James B. Harris |
| Editor: | Douglas Stewart, Douglas Stewart |
| Music by: | Lalo Schifrin |
| Screenplay by: | Peter Hyams, Stirling Silliphant, Walter Wager |
| Adapted from: | Telefon |
| Genre: | Action |