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?
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Plot
Since 1937, Richard Sorge was employed 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.