Ein buchstäblicher CIA-Forscher findet alle seine Mitarbeiter tot und muss die Verantwortlichen überlisten, bis er herausfindet, wem er wirklich vertrauen kann.Ein buchstäblicher CIA-Forscher findet alle seine Mitarbeiter tot und muss die Verantwortlichen überlisten, bis er herausfindet, wem er wirklich vertrauen kann.Ein buchstäblicher CIA-Forscher findet alle seine Mitarbeiter tot und muss die Verantwortlichen überlisten, bis er herausfindet, wem er wirklich vertrauen kann.
- Für 1 Oscar nominiert
- 6 Gewinne & 4 Nominierungen insgesamt
- Joubert
- (as Max Von Sydow)
- Mrs. Russell
- (as Helen Stenbure)
- Jennings
- (as Hansford H. Rowe Jr., Hansford Rolle)
- Mae Barber
- (as Carlin Gylnn)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesFormer CIA director Richard Helms acted as a personal consultant to Robert Redford for his role as the Condor.
- PatzerAny ballistics analysis of the shootings in the alley would show that Sam was not shot by the "assailant" (Turner) who shot the CIA assassin.
However, ballistics analysis is irrelevant because the event is covered up rather than investigated.
- Zitate
Joe Turner: I'd like to go back to New York.
Joubert: You have not much future there. It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift.
- VerbindungenFeatured in Flicks: Folge #1.17 (1975)
- SoundtracksI've Got You Where I Want You
(uncredited)
Music by Dave Grusin
Lyrics by Tom Bähler
Performed by James Gilstrap
Turner works for the American Literary Historical Society, or at least so it seems. In reality he is a CIA researcher, with the code name Condor, who gets paid to read books, in which he has to find possible scenarios that could be used in intelligence work. When he returns to his office after he went out to get lunch, he finds all his colleagues dead and he doesn't know who shot them. He immediately calls a superior who sends his section chief to get him out of there. But when the man arrives, he immediately opens fire on Turner. In an act of pure desperation - he no longer knows who he can trust - Turner kidnaps a woman he has never seen before and forces her to hide him. He will stay in her house until he can find out what exactly is going on. But even there he isn't save. He is discovered and attacked in the woman's house, but is able to kill the man. Now he knows one thing for sure: the man too had a connection to the CIA, which means that someone in the CIA must be behind all this...
I guess the best thing about this movie is the fact that it doesn't give away all its information at once. At first Turner appears to be an ordinary guy who arrives late for work. Nothing special there. But because he gradually builds up tension by slightly releasing more information, the writer knows how to keep you focused and interested. I guess the best way to describe this movie is calling it a classic spy thriller without James Bond-like locations or bad guys and and no super hero who can beat all the bad guys with a blink of an eye. No, this is a normal man who was at the wrong place at the wrong time and who now has to face an unusual and life threatening situation. I guess that's where this movie gets its strength: you can easily identify with him, even though he is a spy.
And yes, the whole concept of the movie is very seventies: the paranoia towards the government, the insecurity of not knowing who your enemies or your friends are... all give it that typical feeling. but even today this movie hasn't lost any of its power or relevance. All in all this is a very good and stylish thriller that offers plenty of tension and some very nice acting. Especially Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway were very nice to watch, but the other actors did a fine job too. Thanks to the combination of the acting, a good story and some nice camera-work, Pollack has created a movie Hitchcock might have been proud of if he had done it. That's why I give this movie a 7.5/10.
- philip_vanderveken
- 10. Juli 2005
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsland
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- Los tres días del cóndor
- Drehorte
- 55 East 77th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(American Literary Historical Society)
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- Budget
- 20.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 27.476.252 $
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 27.476.252 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 57 Minuten
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- Seitenverhältnis
- 2.39 : 1