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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.”
6.3 / 10• 1987• 1h 59m•NR• English
ActionThriller
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Michael Caine
John Preston
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. John Mackenzie's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Fourth Protocol is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
