The Aquarium, or the Loneliness of a Spy. - A 1996 feature film produced in Germany, Poland and Ukraine. Drama, spy movie. Screen adaptation of the novel "Aquarium" by a former Soviet intelligence officer Victor Suvorovwho fled to the West in 1978
Production: Dom Film GmbH, Manfred Durniok Filmproduktion, Polish TV,Ukrtelefilm, Germany-Poland-Ukraine, 1996.
Filmmaker: Anthony Krause
Scriptwriter:Anthony Krause, Victor Suvorov
Starring: Yuri Smolski, Janusz Gajos, Witold Pyrkosz, Larisa Guzeyeva, Henrik Bista
Eugene Paperny
Duration: 4 episodes 240 minutes
The plot of the movie The Aquarium, or The Loneliness of a Spy:
The movie is set in the 1970s. Senior Lieutenant Viktor Suvorov serves as a company commander in a separate tank regiment. Victor could clearly see his career already now. The Armored Tank Academy, and then all the steps of a typical Soviet officer's career.
But one day at an exercise Suvorov "distinguished himself". He rammed his tank into a fence and led his tank company through the breach, giving himself an advantage over other units.
Suvorov believed that the war would wipe everything out. But such an initiative at the exercises could have cost the young officer his career. However, to his surprise Victor was promoted. But not in the tank forces, but in intelligence.
Army headquarters, district headquarters, and finally, Suvorov falls under the scrutiny of the "Aquarium". So in the jargon of intelligence officers called the building GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff). The most secret organization in the USSR was rightly considered the elite of intelligence. But there was a second department in the GRU, which was considered elite even in the GRU.
This department was engaged in agent work abroad, so the selection to the organization was very strict. Each potential candidate was warned that in case of failure he would be subjected to a "conveyor belt" (a rigid procedure of interrogation of suspected intelligence officers). Voluntary withdrawal from the organization was not envisaged, and betrayal was punishable by a painful death.
After graduating from a secret military-diplomatic academy, Suvorov is sent for agent work in the Vienna residence. At first he, like other newcomers, only provided operations for more experienced colleagues, but then he himself participates in recruitment.
As the success of these recruitments grows, so does the leadership's confidence in Suvorov. And now he is entrusted with a particularly important task: to follow one of the most valuable and secret agents of the GRU. However, at the most crucial moment of the operation appears someone who should not have appeared there even by chance....