Passion of Spies
Passion of Spies (Russian: Шпионские страсти, Shpionskiye strasti) is a 1967 Soyuzmultfilm's animated black-and-white film directed by Yefim Gamburg.[1] It parodies spy and detective fiction clichés[1] and got a status of a cult film.[2]
| Passion of Spies | |
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| Directed by | Yefim Gamburg | 
| Written by | Lazar Lagin | 
| Cinematography | Mikhail Druyan | 
| Music by | Georgiy Martynyuk | 
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Running time  | 20 minutes | 
| Country | Soviet Union | 
| Language | Russian | 
Plot
    
In Part 1, a foreign Intelligence agency chief Shtampf is suffering from a toothache. After learning about a wonderful, state-of-the-art dentist's chair invented in the Soviet Union, he develops a plan to steal it. His top agents pass information between each other, but Soviet agents catch them unaware, ending with a car chase where a musician-turned chauffeur is injured. Part 2 tells the story of the chauffeur's idle son Kolychev, who tricks his parents out of money to attend a fancy restaurant. He is seduced by a foreign agent and tricked into buying a large bill, then convinced to plant a bomb beneath the dentist's chair in exchange for the bill being waived.
Animators
    
- Tatyana Pomerantseva[1]
 - Elvira Maslova
 - Ivan Davydov
 - Joseph Kuroyan
 - Renata Mirenkova
 - Olga Orlova
 - Dmitriy Anpilov
 - Natalia Bogomolova
 - Antonina Aleshina
 - Yuriy Butyrin
 
References
    
- "Russian animation in letters and figures. Movies. Shpionskiye strasti" [Российская анимация в буквах и фигурах. Фильмы. "Шпионские страсти"] (in Russian). Animator.ru. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
 - Королев, Роман (September 17, 2010). "Шпионские страсти", режиссер Ефим Гамбург, 1967. Forbes (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2012-12-31. Retrieved 13 March 2013.