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* ViewersAreGeniuses: The newsreels give some [[{{Infodump}} Infodumps]], but still you need to be well-informed about the situation in Europe leading up to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to fully understand what's happening in the film. Prior knowledge of the Skoblin-Miller affair doesn't hurt either. And since it's a SpeechCentricWork, you also need to pay attention to the dialogue.
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* InTheStyleOf: Rohmer, who was a respected expert in the films of Creator/AlfredHitchcock, takes many style cues from Hitchcock here.
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* InTheStyleOf: Rohmer, who was a respected expert in the films of Creator/AlfredHitchcock, takes many style cues from Hitchcock here.here, with ''[[Film/Sabotage1936 Sabotage]]'' as his most obvious point of reference.
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* CityOfSpies: Various nationalities and allegiances running around Paris before World War II.
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* ShownTheirWork: Rohmer did a huge amount of research for the film, including scenes written in Russian. He also got heavy input from his longtime acquaintance Irène Skobline, the niece of Nikolai Skoblin.
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1936--Fyodor Voronin (Serge Renko) and his wife Arsinoé (Katerina Didaskalou) live in a Paris apartment. He's a former Czarist general in exile. She's a Greek expatriate, an artist specializing in SliceOfLife scenes using real people as models. While Fyodor is ostensibly the chief aide to General Dobrinsky (Dmitri Rafalsky), the head of France's chapter of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_All-Military_Union Russian All-Military Union]], he's actually a spy, a job for which he is well-qualified, with all of his contacts. The question is, who is he spying for? Is he helping his fellow White Russians keep tabs on the leftist movements popping up in Europe, like in France, where Léon Blum and his Popular Front have just won the election? Is he helping the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion keep an eye on the White Russians? Is he helping UsefulNotes/NaziGermany keep an eye on the Soviets? He's not very forthcoming about any of this with Arsinoé, despite their loving marriage. As her health starts to worsen, he starts facing serious choices over his future as his political loyalties and personal loyalties start to clash, while Europe starts moving slowly toward [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII another war]].
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1936--Fyodor Voronin (Serge Renko) and his wife Arsinoé (Katerina Didaskalou) live in a Paris apartment. He's a former Czarist general in exile. She's a Greek expatriate, an artist specializing in SliceOfLife scenes using real people as models. While Fyodor is ostensibly the chief aide to General Dobrinsky (Dmitri Rafalsky), the head of France's chapter of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_All-Military_Union Russian All-Military Union]], he's actually a spy, a job for which he is well-qualified, with all of his contacts. The question is, who is he spying for? Is he helping his fellow White Russians keep tabs on the leftist movements popping up in Europe, like in France, where [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Blum Léon Blum Blum]] and his Popular Front have just won the election? Is he helping the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion keep an eye on the White Russians? Is he helping UsefulNotes/NaziGermany keep an eye on the Soviets? He's not very forthcoming about any of this with Arsinoé, despite their loving marriage. As her health starts to worsen, he starts facing serious choices over his future as his political loyalties and personal loyalties start to clash, while Europe starts moving slowly toward [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII another war]].
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''Triple Agent'' is a 2004 French [[SpyFiction Spy Film]] written and directed by Creator/EricRohmer. The then-octogenarian director's second-to-last film, it also marks a rare foray into genre films for him.
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''Triple Agent'' is a 2004 French [[SpyFiction Spy Film]] Film]], inspired by a true story, written and directed by Creator/EricRohmer. The then-octogenarian director's second-to-last film, it also marks a rare foray into genre films for him.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: It's a fictionalized account of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Skoblin Nikolai Skoblin]], his wife [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Plevitskaya Nadezhda Plevitskaya]], and his White Russian boss [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Miller Yevgeny Miller]]. Skoblin [[spoiler:oversaw the kidnapping of Miller to Russia, then disappeared himself, with his wife convicted of conspiracy and sent to prison, where she died]]. The disclaimer at the beginning admits that it's based on real events, but takes dramatic liberties with them. Rohmer definitely earned extra points for casting Serge Renko, who looks almost exactly like [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Skoblin.jpg Skoblin]].
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: It's a fictionalized account of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Skoblin Nikolai Skoblin]], his wife [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Plevitskaya Nadezhda Plevitskaya]], and his White Russian boss [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Miller Yevgeny Miller]]. Skoblin [[spoiler:oversaw the kidnapping of Miller to Russia, then disappeared himself, with his wife convicted of conspiracy and sent to prison, where she died]]. The disclaimer at the beginning admits that it's based on real events, but takes dramatic liberties with them. Rohmer definitely earned extra points for casting Serge Renko, who looks almost exactly like [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Skoblin.jpg Skoblin]].Skoblin]].
* ViewersAreGeniuses: The newsreels give some [[{{Infodump}} Infodumps]], but still you need to be well-informed about the situation in Europe leading up to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to fully understand what's happening in the film. Prior knowledge of the Skoblin-Miller affair doesn't hurt either. And since it's a SpeechCentricWork, you also need to pay attention to the dialogue.
* ViewersAreGeniuses: The newsreels give some [[{{Infodump}} Infodumps]], but still you need to be well-informed about the situation in Europe leading up to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to fully understand what's happening in the film. Prior knowledge of the Skoblin-Miller affair doesn't hurt either. And since it's a SpeechCentricWork, you also need to pay attention to the dialogue.
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* SignatureStyle: It's a spy thriller, but it's an Creator/EricRohmer spy thriller, so it's mostly characters having conversations and working through moral dilemmas.
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->''Probably the only espionage yarn in which people sit around in rooms gabbing rather than taking out guns or chasing each other.''
-->-- '''Variety'''
''Triple Agent'' is a 2004 French [[SpyFiction Spy Film]] written and directed by Creator/EricRohmer. The then-octogenarian director's second-to-last film, it also marks a rare foray into genre films for him.
1936--Fyodor Voronin (Serge Renko) and his wife Arsinoé (Katerina Didaskalou) live in a Paris apartment. He's a former Czarist general in exile. She's a Greek expatriate, an artist specializing in SliceOfLife scenes using real people as models. While Fyodor is ostensibly the chief aide to General Dobrinsky (Dmitri Rafalsky), the head of France's chapter of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_All-Military_Union Russian All-Military Union]], he's actually a spy, a job for which he is well-qualified, with all of his contacts. The question is, who is he spying for? Is he helping his fellow White Russians keep tabs on the leftist movements popping up in Europe, like in France, where Léon Blum and his Popular Front have just won the election? Is he helping the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion keep an eye on the White Russians? Is he helping UsefulNotes/NaziGermany keep an eye on the Soviets? He's not very forthcoming about any of this with Arsinoé, despite their loving marriage. As her health starts to worsen, he starts facing serious choices over his future as his political loyalties and personal loyalties start to clash, while Europe starts moving slowly toward [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII another war]].
!!This film contains examples of:
* AntiHero: Fyodor seems like a fundamentally decent person, but as the film goes along we see his moral compass is askew.
* AdaptationalNationality: Russian singer Nadezhda Plevitskaya is fictionalized into Greek artist Arsinoé Voronin, played by Greek actress Katerina Didaskalou.
* BreakTheCutie: Arsinoé is a very likeable character whose health goes downhill and whose husband starts behaving dubiously.
* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: Fyodor collaborates with Communists and Fascists alike. It's suggested he may not even be sure where his loyalties ultimately lie.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Averted. Arsinoé's tuberculosis affects her bones, so her main symptoms are sharp pains in her leg.
* IrisOut: Rohmer uses one in a key scene.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Fyodor [[spoiler:betrays Dobrinsky to the USSR, who ends up betraying Fyodor.]]
* TheMole: Fyodor, though he's more like a pragmatic type who cooperates with the side that will benefit him the most personally.
* {{Newsreel}}: Actual Pathé newsreels from the 30s set up the historical context for the story, reporting on situations like the Popular Front's election in France or the Spanish Civil War.
* OffscreenVillainy: We don't get to see Fyodor's most questionable actions, like [[spoiler:meeting with Nazi leaders and tricking Dobrinsky into getting abducted]].
* ThePurge: UsefulNotes/JosefStalin's Great Purge happens during the course of the film, but rather than be repulsed, Fyodor sees an opportunity. As he explains to Arsinoé, Stalin now needs warm bodies to replace those generals he's been killing off, and Fyodor has good qualifications even if he's supposed to be a White Russian.
* SpyFiction: Stale Beer Flavored, for sure, with the moral issues surrounding Fyodor's espionage being the main driving force of the plot.
* UnreliableNarrator: Arsinoé is the AudienceSurrogate who seems like she's in the dark about what Fyodor is doing, but at the end [[spoiler:we find out that her past isn't totally clean either.]].
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: It's a fictionalized account of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Skoblin Nikolai Skoblin]], his wife [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Plevitskaya Nadezhda Plevitskaya]], and his White Russian boss [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Miller Yevgeny Miller]]. Skoblin [[spoiler:oversaw the kidnapping of Miller to Russia, then disappeared himself, with his wife convicted of conspiracy and sent to prison, where she died]]. The disclaimer at the beginning admits that it's based on real events, but takes dramatic liberties with them. Rohmer definitely earned extra points for casting Serge Renko, who looks almost exactly like [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Skoblin.jpg Skoblin]].
->''Probably the only espionage yarn in which people sit around in rooms gabbing rather than taking out guns or chasing each other.''
-->-- '''Variety'''
''Triple Agent'' is a 2004 French [[SpyFiction Spy Film]] written and directed by Creator/EricRohmer. The then-octogenarian director's second-to-last film, it also marks a rare foray into genre films for him.
1936--Fyodor Voronin (Serge Renko) and his wife Arsinoé (Katerina Didaskalou) live in a Paris apartment. He's a former Czarist general in exile. She's a Greek expatriate, an artist specializing in SliceOfLife scenes using real people as models. While Fyodor is ostensibly the chief aide to General Dobrinsky (Dmitri Rafalsky), the head of France's chapter of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_All-Military_Union Russian All-Military Union]], he's actually a spy, a job for which he is well-qualified, with all of his contacts. The question is, who is he spying for? Is he helping his fellow White Russians keep tabs on the leftist movements popping up in Europe, like in France, where Léon Blum and his Popular Front have just won the election? Is he helping the UsefulNotes/SovietUnion keep an eye on the White Russians? Is he helping UsefulNotes/NaziGermany keep an eye on the Soviets? He's not very forthcoming about any of this with Arsinoé, despite their loving marriage. As her health starts to worsen, he starts facing serious choices over his future as his political loyalties and personal loyalties start to clash, while Europe starts moving slowly toward [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII another war]].
!!This film contains examples of:
* AntiHero: Fyodor seems like a fundamentally decent person, but as the film goes along we see his moral compass is askew.
* AdaptationalNationality: Russian singer Nadezhda Plevitskaya is fictionalized into Greek artist Arsinoé Voronin, played by Greek actress Katerina Didaskalou.
* BreakTheCutie: Arsinoé is a very likeable character whose health goes downhill and whose husband starts behaving dubiously.
* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: Fyodor collaborates with Communists and Fascists alike. It's suggested he may not even be sure where his loyalties ultimately lie.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Averted. Arsinoé's tuberculosis affects her bones, so her main symptoms are sharp pains in her leg.
* IrisOut: Rohmer uses one in a key scene.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Fyodor [[spoiler:betrays Dobrinsky to the USSR, who ends up betraying Fyodor.]]
* TheMole: Fyodor, though he's more like a pragmatic type who cooperates with the side that will benefit him the most personally.
* {{Newsreel}}: Actual Pathé newsreels from the 30s set up the historical context for the story, reporting on situations like the Popular Front's election in France or the Spanish Civil War.
* OffscreenVillainy: We don't get to see Fyodor's most questionable actions, like [[spoiler:meeting with Nazi leaders and tricking Dobrinsky into getting abducted]].
* ThePurge: UsefulNotes/JosefStalin's Great Purge happens during the course of the film, but rather than be repulsed, Fyodor sees an opportunity. As he explains to Arsinoé, Stalin now needs warm bodies to replace those generals he's been killing off, and Fyodor has good qualifications even if he's supposed to be a White Russian.
* SpyFiction: Stale Beer Flavored, for sure, with the moral issues surrounding Fyodor's espionage being the main driving force of the plot.
* UnreliableNarrator: Arsinoé is the AudienceSurrogate who seems like she's in the dark about what Fyodor is doing, but at the end [[spoiler:we find out that her past isn't totally clean either.]].
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: It's a fictionalized account of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Skoblin Nikolai Skoblin]], his wife [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Plevitskaya Nadezhda Plevitskaya]], and his White Russian boss [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Miller Yevgeny Miller]]. Skoblin [[spoiler:oversaw the kidnapping of Miller to Russia, then disappeared himself, with his wife convicted of conspiracy and sent to prison, where she died]]. The disclaimer at the beginning admits that it's based on real events, but takes dramatic liberties with them. Rohmer definitely earned extra points for casting Serge Renko, who looks almost exactly like [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Skoblin.jpg Skoblin]].
