Sentences with phrase «german intelligence officer»

«The book has an unusual hero... a former East German intelligence officer who is an expert on America and still quite hostile toward the United States.

A German intelligence officer, Gunther Bachmann (Hoffman), operating in Hamburg investigates and attempts to track down a Chechen Muslim, Issa Karpov (Dobrygin), who has illegally immigrated to Germany and is a suspected terrorist.

Even for as brilliant a chameleon as Hoffman, a hefty man who won an Oscar for convincing us he was elfin Truman Capote, making us believe he was Günther Bachmann, a German intelligence officer, had to be one of the most demanding roles in a lifetime full of them.

The trouble is that the director has tackled what seems, at least as translated, like lesser Le Carré; the story, involving a German intelligence officer (Philip Seymour Hoffman) keeping tabs on a Russian - Chechen immigrant who may be a security threat, feels like a long trudge towards a single damning point.

In a scene that darkly reflects the season - one episode «The Weekend,» Quinn reluctantly recuperates in a fetching lakeside cabin with his former lover, the German intelligence officer Astrid (Nina Hoss), and comes to understand that his freedom is part of a deal that's been worked out by Dar.

«Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War,» a 2011 book by historian Hal Vaughan, uses what were at the time newly declassified documents from French and German authorities, to substantiate claims that she committed espionage for the Nazis and was romantically involved with German intelligence officer Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage.

Not exact matches

Germany today maintains a quid pro quo policy toward the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah that is similar to its posture toward Black September, according to German journalists and intelligence officers.

John Sutton plays a British intelligence officer, sent into occupied France with a small unit to local a German munitions depot.

The real test comes when Max is told by a supercilious intelligence officer that his loving wife is a German double agent.

Wilhelm Leissner, the Abwehr chief in Spain, presided over a well - funded, sprawling intelligence network made up of more than two hundred officers (more than half the German diplomatic presence), with some fifteen hundred agents deployed around the country.

Used to aid police officers and military officials, German shepherd dogs are known for their intelligence and trainability.