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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like The Fourth Protocol, it builds Cold War dread through a grounded, procedural race to stop a covert political assassination, favouring brisk investigation and escalating tension over spectacle.
02
Why this pick
A tightly controlled British conspiracy thriller with the same sober 1980s atmosphere, following an ordinary investigator into a web of state secrecy and mounting personal danger.
03
Why this pick
Its restrained British paranoia, intelligence-world deception and steadily tightening sense of jeopardy closely match the adult, unflashy espionage tension of The Fourth Protocol.
04
Why this pick
Another sleek 1987 political suspense film driven by high-level secrets, shifting loyalties and a breathless deadline, with a similarly serious Cold War-era sensibility.
05
Why this pick
It shares the era’s international conspiracy texture: a reluctant man is pulled across Europe by buried geopolitical schemes, coded information and threats that keep widening in scale.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1968, an Eastern Bloc-Western Bloc agreement is established to halt nuclear proliferation. One of its clauses, the Fourth Protocol, forbids the non-conventional delivery of a nuclear weapon to a target.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
John Preston
Valeri Petrofsky / James Edward Ross
Irina Vassilievna
Sir Nigel Irvine
Sir Bernard Hemmings
Karpov
Tom
Wynne-Evans
