The Amateur
1981 · 1h 52m · Action, Crime, Thriller · Canada · Rated R (US)
In a world of professional assassins, there is no room for an amateur.
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
Directed by
Charles JarrottBased on the novel by
Robert Littell5.9Smart score
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assassincentral intelligence agency (cia)murdered wife
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