# Les Espions (1928)

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**Original title**: *Spione*
**Runtime**: 145 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Romance
**Directed by**: Fritz Lang
**Written by**: Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou
**Starring**: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers, Louis Ralph, Willy Fritsch, Paul Hörbiger

> *Fritz Lang’s Espionage Epic!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Berlin. Rain slicked streets. A single discarded glove.

Hired to steal state secrets, a beautiful spy falls for the handsome man tasked to stop her. Their dangerous affair risks exposing a network of subterfuge run by a criminal overlord.

Lang’s silent thriller anticipates Bond by decades.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, neon-soaked, paranoid

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