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From Russia with Love

Turkish title: Rusya'dan Sevgilerle

“The world's masters of murder pull out all the stops to destroy Agent 007!”

1963 · 1 h 55 min
Directed by Terence Young · UK · British Cinema
ActionAdventureThriller

Cast

Sean Connery Robert Shaw Lotte Lenya Daniela Bianchi Pedro Armendáriz Bernard Lee

Credits

Written by: Richard Maibaum

Plot

The criminal organisation SPECTRE plans to steal a Soviet decoding machine, the Lektor, and kill James Bond, using the beautiful Soviet clerk Tatiana Romanova as bait. Bond travels to Istanbul and then on the Orient Express, where he must face the assassin Red Grant. Sean Connery stars; Istanbul locations feature heavily.

Sinekatalog’s take

A grounded Cold War spy thriller that many consider the best of the early Bond films, with a brilliant train fight and a suspenseful plot. It also gives a vivid glimpse of 1960s Istanbul.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (161,179 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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