title: Secret Agent (1947 film)
text: Secret Agent (, translit. Podvig razvedchika) is a 1947 Soviet spy film directed by Boris Barnet and based on the novel The Deed Remains Unknown () by Mikhail Maklyarsky. The film stars Pavel Kadochnikov in the leading role. Secret Agent is also known as Secret Mission, Secrets of Counter-Espionage, The Scout's Exploit.
  
  It was the first film about the actions of Soviet intelligence officers behind enemy lines in World War II. The film originated the spy genre in Soviet cinema and had a great influence on all subsequent Soviet spy films, including Seventeen Moments of Spring. It is based on real events from the biography of Nikolai Khokhlov.
  
  The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1947 and had 22.73 million viewers.
  
  Plot
  
  Soviet intelligence officer Aleksei Fedotov by the name of Heinrich Eckert departs for German-occupied Vinnytsia. His purpose is to obtain the secret correspondence of General Kuhn with the Hitler's headquarters. When his radio operator, sent to Aleksei, is executed, Fedotov is forced to search for a contact through the local underground, but accidentally he discovers that one of the underground workers is a provocateur.
  
  Cast
  Pavel Kadochnikov as major Aleksei Fedotov
  Amvrosy Buchma as Grigory Leschuk
  Viktor Dobrovolsky as Chief
  Dmitri Milyutenko as Berezhnoy
  Sergey Martinson as Willi Pommer
  Mikhail Romanov as Erich von Rummelsburg
  Pyotr Arzhanov as Karpovsky
  Boris Barnet as general von Kuhn
  Yelena Izmailova as Theresa Gruber
  Valentina Ulesova as Nina
  Sergei Petrov as Astakhov
  Viktor Khalatov as Friedrich Pommer
   as Frau Pommer
  Aleksei Bykov as Medvedev
  Gennady Nilov as episode
  
  Awards
   1948 - Stalin Prize of 2nd degree to director, designer (Morits Umansky), scenarios and Pavel Kadochnikov.
  
  External links
  
    Podvig razvedchika
  
  1947 films
  1940s spy films
  Soviet spy films
  1940s Russian-language films
  Films directed by Boris Barnet
  World War II spy films
  Eastern Front of World War II films
  Films set in Ukraine
  Films about Nazi Germany
  Soviet black-and-white films
  
  Films about the Soviet Union in the Stalin era
  Films set in the Soviet Union