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| Directed by | Yefim Gamburg |
| Written by | Lazar Lagin |
| Music by | Georgiy Martynyuk |
| Cinematography | Mikhail Druyan |
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1967 |
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20 min. |
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| Language | Russian |
Passion of Spies (Russian: Шпионские страсти, Shpionskiye strasti) is a 1967 Soyuzmultfilm's animated black-and-white film directed by Yefim Gamburg. It parodies spy and detective fiction clichés and got a status of a cult film.
In Part 1, a foreign Intelligence agency chief Shtampf is suffering from a toothache. After he finds out that a wonderful dentist's chair was invented in the Soviet Union, so he develops a plan of stealing it. Part 2 tells the story of chauffeur's idle son Kolychev, who cannot pay the restaurant bill. He has to organize the dentist's chair's destruction in return.