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Basics Critics:79Viewers:73Rusty:83
Category: Drama, Mystery/Noir/ThrillerNotable as: DramaSub-Category: Spy film, Thriller, Black-and-white, DramaMain subject: World War IINarrative location: London, IstanbulRuntime: 108 minutesLanguage: Portuguese, English, German, TurkishCountry: United StatesDirector: Joseph L. MankiewiczScreenwriter: Michael WilsonMusic: Bernard HerrmannCinematography: Norbert BrodineStars: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden, Oskar Karlweis, John Wengraf, Alberto Morin, Alfred Zeisler, Ivan Triesault Producer: Otto Lang, Gerd OswaldAward nominations: Academy Award for Best Director (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (Michael Wilson)
Award details: (details at IMDb)
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5 Fingers, known also as Five Fingers, is a 1952 American spy film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Otto Lang. The screenplay by Michael Wilson was based on the book Operation Cicero by L.C. Moyzisch. In the film, James Mason plays Ulysses Diello, the character based on Bazna. The rest of the cast includes Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Herbert Berghof and Walter Hampden. The film is based on the true story of Albanian-born Elyesa Bazna, one of the most famous spies of World War II. He worked for the Nazis in 1943–44 while he was employed as valet to the British ambassador to Turkey, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen. He used the code name Cicero. He would photograph top-secret documents and turn the films over to Franz von Papen, the former German chancellor, at that time German ambassador in Ankara, via the intermediary Moyzisch, a commercial attaché at the embassy.


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