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1987 • 1h 59min • R • Action, Thriller

The Fourth Protocol

"If the Fourth Protocol is ever breached, there would be no warning, just a nuclear explosion from a bedsitter... The unthinkable has just begun."

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.

IMDb 6.5

RT 67%

MC 64

Director

John Mackenzie

Writers

Frederick Forsyth

George Axelrod

Frederick Forsyth

Composer

Lalo Schifrin

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Michael Caine

John Preston

Pierce Brosnan

Valeri Petrofsky / James Edward Ross

Ned Beatty

Borisov

Joanna Cassidy

Irina Vassilievna

Julian Glover

Brian Harcourt-Smith

Michael Gough

Sir Bernard Hemmings

Ray McAnally

General Karpov

Ian Richardson

Sir Nigel Irvine

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