Illegal

Seventies. The cold war in the midst of the USSR and the West are fighting hard for secret information about each other. Soviet intelligence agencies want to save their couriers from too much attention of customs officers at the Leningrad airport. These couriers deliver to the USSR important documents obtained by our scouts in Western Europe

Directed by Yury Lebedev, Boris Frumin, Illegal leans on a strong ensemble — Aleksey Serebryakov, Olga Albanova, Ekaterina Reshetnikova — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.

The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about drama titles of 2006.