critiQs

Login Sign-up
Escape to the Sun

Escape to the Sun

# Their dream was the sun beyond the border
Thriller   Action   Drama
📜 Overview: Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their lives
🌏 Languages Available:
📆 Date Released: 1972-10-31
⌚ Running Time: 118 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 4.0

Beloved Cast

Laurence Harvey original image
Major Kirsanov
Laurence Harvey
Josephine Chaplin original image
Nina Kaplan
Josephine Chaplin
John Ireland original image
Jacob Kagan
John Ireland
Lila Kedrova original image
Sarah Kaplan
Lila Kedrova
Jack Hawkins original image
Baburin
Jack Hawkins
Clive Revill original image
The Drunkard
Clive Revill
Yehuda Barkan original image
Yasha Bazarov
Yehuda Barkan
Yehuda Efroni original image
Romek
Yehuda Efroni
Peter Capell original image
Prof. Abramowiz
Peter Capell
Gila Almagor original image
The Judge
Gila Almagor

Similar Movies

7.417
Movie Name : Enemy at the Gates
Release Date : 🕔 2001-02-28
Average Rating: 7.417
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

7.1
Movie Name : The Cuckoo
Release Date : 🕔 2002-01-01
Average Rating: 7.1
Genres:
Duration :

overview : September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock …

8.028
Movie Name : The Lives of Others
Release Date : 🕔 2006-03-23
Average Rating: 8.028
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the Stasi secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds …

7.811
Movie Name : Solaris
Release Date : 🕔 1972-03-20
Average Rating: 7.811
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor …

7.064
Movie Name : From Russia with Love
Release Date : 🕔 1963-10-10
Average Rating: 7.064
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization …

6.797
Movie Name : The Spy Who Loved Me
Release Date : 🕔 1977-07-07
Average Rating: 6.797
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both …

6.529
Movie Name : For Your Eyes Only
Release Date : 🕔 1981-06-24
Average Rating: 6.529
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find …

6.332
Movie Name : Octopussy
Release Date : 🕔 1983-06-05
Average Rating: 6.332
Genres:
Duration :

overview : James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. …

6.5
Movie Name : The Living Daylights
Release Date : 🕔 1987-06-29
Average Rating: 6.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to …

8.0
Movie Name : Andrei Rublev
Release Date : 🕔 1966-12-16
Average Rating: 8.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place …

7.3
Movie Name : One Breath
Release Date : 🕔 2020-03-05
Average Rating: 7.3
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Following her divorce, Marina thinks that she’ll never meet love again. Little does she know that one day, she’ll find …

6.639
Movie Name : The Earthquake
Release Date : 🕔 2016-12-01
Average Rating: 6.639
Genres:
Duration :

overview : After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work …

6.7
Movie Name : An American Tail
Release Date : 🕔 1986-11-21
Average Rating: 6.7
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn …

5.9
Movie Name : Checkpoint
Release Date : 🕔 1998-08-15
Average Rating: 5.9
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A group Russian soldiers is send to an outpost to guard the area. They pass the day patroulling the area, …

5.6
Movie Name : Enigma
Release Date : 🕔 1982-10-15
Average Rating: 5.6
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical …

3.7
Movie Name : The Harrad Experiment
Release Date : 🕔 1973-05-11
Average Rating: 3.7
Genres:
Duration :

overview : At fictional Harrad College students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1962 book of the …

5.7
Movie Name : A Public Prosecutor and a Teacher
Release Date : 🕔 1948-06-05
Average Rating: 5.7
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A female teacher gives shelter to an escaped convict, but her husband, misconstruing her intentions, reacts violently and accidentally stabs …

6.7
Movie Name : Pawn Sacrifice
Release Date : 🕔 2015-09-16
Average Rating: 6.7
Genres:
Duration :

overview : American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

Comments (0)