- 5 Fingers
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director =Joseph L. Mankiewicz
producer = Otto LangGerd Oswald (associate producer) (uncredited)
writer =L.C. Moyzisch (book)
Michael Wilson (screenplay)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (uncredited)
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starring =James Mason Danielle Darrieux
music =Bernard Herrmann
cinematography =Norbert Brodine
editing = James B. Clark
distributor =Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
released =February 22 1952
runtime = 108 mins
country = USA
language = English, German, Portuguese, Turkish
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imdb_id = 0044314"5 Fingers", known also as "Five Fingers", is a 1952
20th Century Fox spy film directed byJoseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Otto Lang. The screenplay by Michael Wilson and Mankiewicz was based on "Operation Cicero" ("Original German: Der Fall Cicero") (1950) by L.C. Moyzisch.The film tells the true story of
Albania n-bornElyesa Bazna , one of the most famous spies of World War II. He worked for the Nazis in 1943–44 while he was employed as valet to the British ambassador toTurkey , Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen. He used the code name "Cicero". He would photograph top-secret documents and turn the films over toFranz von Papen , the former German chancellor, at that time German ambassador inAnkara , via the intermediary Moyzisch, a commercial attaché at the embassy.In the film,
James Mason plays Ulysses Diello (Cicero), the character based on Bazna. The rest of the cast includesDanielle Darrieux ,Michael Rennie , Herbert Berghof andWalter Hampden .The film was nominated for two
Academy Awards , Best Director for Mankiewicz and Best Screenplay for Wilson. Mankiewicz was also nominated for "Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures" by theDirectors Guild of America and Wilson was nominated for "Best Written American Drama" by theWriters Guild of America . He won theGolden Globe for "Best Screenplay" and theEdgar Award for "Best Mystery Screenplay.""Five Fingers" was also a
1959 16 episode one hour espionage20th Century Fox Television series starringDavid Hedison andLuciana Paluzzi .References
* Bazna published his own account of the events in his book, "I was Cicero", in 1962 (Bazna, Elyesa, with Hans Nogly. "I Was Cicero". New York: Harper & Row, 1962)
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