Where Were You, Odysseus?

Where were you, Odysseus?
Directed by	Timur Zoloyev
Written by	Aleksei Azarov
Starring	Donatas Banionis Anatoli Romashin
Cinematography	Vladimir Kromas
Music by	Isaac Schwartz
Production company	Odessa Film Studio
Release date	1978 (1978)
Running time	211 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Where were you, Odysseus? (Russian: Где ты был, Одиссей?, romanized: Gde ty byl, Odissey?) is a 1978 Soviet three-part television war film directed by Timur Zoloyev.

The film is based on the story of Alexei Azarov's The Road to Zeus, about the actions of Soviet intelligence during the Great Patriotic War.

Plot

1944 year. The Soviet intelligence officer, who acts under the name of the French businessman Auguste Ptigan, accidentally gets into the ranks of Gestapo; who take him for an English spy.

Because of this, the scout gets the opportunity to establish contacts with high ranks of the Gestapo and the Abwehr who understand the inevitability of the defeat of Hitler's army and try to establish contact with the intelligence services of the countries that are part of the anti-Hitler coalition ...

Cast

• Donatas Banionis — Soviet intelligence officer Odyssey (also Ptizhan and Lehman)
• Anatoli Romashin — SS Sturmbannführer Karl Ehrlich
• Irina Tereshchenko — Shafrhurer SS Lotta Bolz
• Georgy Drozd — Oberscharfuhrer SS Vogel
• Lev Perfilov — Doctor Gauk
• Karlis Sebris — Standartenfuhrer SS (Gestapo) Zoller
• Victor Malyarevich — Soviet radio operator Luke
• Erwin Knausmüller — von Arvid
• Peter Kudlai — Standartenfuhrer SS
• Alexander Lazarev — Brigadefuhrer SS Count von Warburg Trottenvalz

External links

• Where Were You, Odysseus? at IMDb