The Osterman Weekend (DVD)

The Osterman Weekend is a 1983 thriller originally penned by Robert Ludlum, who is also the author of the Bourne saga. The film was released at a time when Cold War conspiracies were the plot for many TV series, film and book. Recent events with Aghanistan had heightened friction between the States and the USSR, and thus this film touched a very nervous point. The Plot This is a lesson in conspiracy gone wrong. John Tanner is the host for a TV show that regularly outs corrupt government officials. He is approached by Laurence Fassett, a CIA agent, and told that 3 of his closest friends with whom he has a reunion every year are in fact KGB ...  Read the complete review

John Tanner hosts an investigative TV show that regularly outs government officials. When he is approached by the CIA, who tell him that three of his closest friends, with whom he has a reunion every year, are working for the KGB, he is cynical enough not to believe a word of it. But being presented with video evidence of their allegiance and nearly losing his wife and son in a kidnap attempt, he is convinced enough to realise that something is desperately wrong. A CIA agent and senior political figure persuade him to go ahead with the yearly reunion as planned and to try and 'turn' at least one of his three friends into double agents. At first, the weekend ...  Read the complete review