Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?

Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
Directed by	Yves Ciampi
Written by	Yves Ciampi Hans-Otto Meissner Tsutomu Sawamura
Produced by	Jacques Bar
Starring	Thomas Holtzmann Mario Adorf
Cinematography	Emile Vilerbue Toshio Ubukata
Music by	Serge Nigg
Production companies	Shôchiku Eiga Terra Films Silver Films
Release date	March 29, 1961 (1961-03-29)
Running time	129 minutes
Countries	France Japan
Languages	French Japanese
Box office	39.2 million tickets (Soviet Union)

Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? is a 1961 French–Japanese drama film directed by Yves Ciampi. The original French-language name is Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge?

Plot

Since 1937, Richard Sorge was his in the German embassy in Tokyo. He was known as a doctor of sociology, who did not shun to become a front-line correspondent, as a pleasant, erudite interlocutor, in a word, as a true Aryan. They didn't know only one thing: behind his reporter's activities there was a secret mission, establishing contact with Moscow through a resident in Hong Kong.

Cast

• Thomas Holtzmann as Richard Sorge
• Mario Adorf as Max Clausen
• Akira Yamauchi as Hotsumi Ozaki
• Jacques Berthier as Serge Branovski
• Kōji Nanbara as Yotoku Miyagi
• Nadine Basile as Anna Clausen
• Keiko Kishi as Yuki Sakurai

Background

Since 1939, Sorge and Clausen had sent over 141 radio messages and numerous microfilms to Moscow. To his arrest on 18 October 1941, the observation of Japanese exile communists led by the Japanese secret police Tokko. In the course of which one of his contacts was exposed. On November 7, 1944, the anniversary of the October Revolution, Richard Sorge was hanged in Japan.

The German diplomat and writer Hans-Otto Meissner plays in the film itself.

External links

• Who Are You, Mr. Sorge? at IMDb
• Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge? on Unifrance