Plot

The Popular Front

Popular Front (France)

The Popular Front was an alliance of left-wing movements, including the French Communist Party , the French Section of the Workers' International and the Radical and Socialist Party, during the interwar period...

 wins the French general elections of 1936. In Spain the Civil War

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

 begins. Meanwhile, in a Paris apartment, Fiodor Voronin, a retired general of the Tsarist army

Military history of Imperial Russia

The Military history of the Russian Empire encompasses the history of armed conflict in which the Empire participated. This history stretches from its creation in 1721 by Peter the Great, until the Russian Revolution , which led to the establishment of the Soviet Union...

 lives an apparently quiet life with his Greek wife Arsinoé. He is a deputy at the White Russian

White movement

The White movement and its military arm the White Army - known as the White Guard or the Whites - was a loose confederation of Anti-Communist forces.The movement comprised one of the politico-military Russian forces who fought...

 Military Union, and he is slated to replace the aging general Dobrinsky soon.

Unbeknownst to his wife and colleagues, he is also a Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 agent. When Dobrinsky disappears, Voronin is considered a suspect, and he vanishes without a trace. His wife is tried by the French Government and her reputation is ruined. During the German occupation of Paris, the Germans discover that it is likely that Voronin was murdered by the NKVD

NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....

 after having been smuggled from the Soviet Embassy to Red Spain.

The film is based on the true story of White Russian general (and secret Soviet agent) Nikolai Skoblin

Nikolai Skoblin

Nikolai Skoblin was a general in the counterrevolutionary White Russian army, a member of the expatriate Russian All-Military Union , a Soviet double agent, and husband to the gypsy folk-singer Nadezhda Plevitskaya ....

 and his involvement in the disappearance and murder of fellow White Russian general Evgenii Miller

Evgenii Miller

Evgeny Karlovich Miller was a Russian general and one of the leaders of the anti-communist White Army during and after Russian Civil War.-Biography:...

.

Cast

• Katerina Didaskalou
  Katerina Didaskalou
  Katerina Didaskalou is a Greek theatre, stage, television and film actress. She studied dramatic arts and philosophy in Athens and went on to study cinema and theater at Columbia University, on an Onassis Foundation scholarship...
  
   as Arsinoe
• Serge Renko as Fiodor Voronin
• Cyrielle Clair
  Cyrielle Clair
  Cyrielle Clair is a French actress. She has appeared in 55 films and television shows since 1978. She starred in the 1983 film La Belle captive, which was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival....
  
   as Maguy
• Grigori Manukov as Boris
• Dimitri Rafalsky as General Dobrinsky