Two Girls from the Red Star (German: Zwei Girls vom rotten Stern) is a 1966 comedy spy film directed by Sammy Drechsel and starring Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens and Pascale Petit.Von Dassanowsky p.183https://www.filmportal.de/film/zwei-girls-vom-roten-stern_cb09e7866976441d9c62025224d53003 It was based on a novel by Peter Norden.Goble p.347
It was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna with sets designed by the art director Hertha Hareiter. A co-production between Austria, France and West Germany, it is also known by the alternative title An Affair of States.Parish & Pitts p.8
Synopsis Two female members of the Soviet military are selected to attend a disarmament conference held in Geneva, in order to steal the details of a secret new American weapon.
Main cast Lilli Palmer as Olga Nikolaijewna Curd Jürgens as Dave O'Connor Pascale Petit as Anja Petrovna Daniel Gélin as Ballard Kurt Meisel as Sapparov Stanislav Ledinek as Popovitch Hellmut Lange as Harry Miller Anthony Steel as Michael 'Mike' Astor Edd Stavjanik as Koltchev
References
Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Parish, James Robert & Pitts, Michael R.. The Great Spy Pictures: Volume II. Bloomsbury Academic, 1986. Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.
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