Final Assignment (1980) on Netflix
Canadian journalist Nicole covers the prime minister's visit in the Soviet Union. She uncovers unethical steroid experiments on children and helps smuggle a girl out for brain surgery.
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Plot summary
Nicole is a Canadian television journalist covering the prime minister's visit to the Soviet Union. While there, she learns of unethical steroid experiments on children and becomes involved in an attempt to smuggle a girl out of the country for emergency brain surgery. Lyosha Petrov, a Soviet press corps bureaucrat assigned to watch her, begins a romance with Nicole. A wealthy businessman she knows, Zak, is also in Russia, and Nicole asks him to help with the smuggling. She has to stay clear of the KGB as she gathers a video to show the world what is happening to the children.
Cast
- Richard Gabourieas Bowen
- Michelle Mostovoyas Tasha
- Renato Trujilloas Argentinian guerilla leader
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Final Assignment (1980)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Soviet government refused director Paul Almond's request for stock film footage of Moscow and Leningrad, because it was displeased with Canada's diplomatic response to the 1979 Soviet-Afghan War.
