Escape to Nowhere

Each week, FrenchFlicks selects a French film available on TV5MONDE Cinema on Demand. The streaming service presents an assortment of 30 French language films including recent releases and timeless classics, festival favorites, films and series never before seen on television in the US!

This month, TV5MONDE Cinema On Demand offers a selection of films featuring the French-Italian actor Lino Ventura, famous for his roles of tough cops or gangsters.

Escape to Nowhere (Le silencieux)

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?

"La mise en scène, brillante, serrée, fait apparaître le mécanisme des péripéties dans lesquelles Lino Ventura se trouve pris. En homme traqué et solitaire, il est remarquable." - Télérama"

Director: Claude Pinoteau (1973)

With: Lino Ventura, Leo Genn, Suzanne Flon
Genre: Thriller, drama
Subtitles: English
117 min.

TV5MONDE Cinema on Demand is now available available via streaming with Sling TV

Now also available: Chouf, made in Italy, Paris la blanche, Des plans sur la comète, La mécanique de l'ombre, and much more.

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