Taking a brief hiatus from blockbuster fare following her eye-catching breakout in last year’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Rebecca Ferguson leads an all-star cast in the first trailer for espionage drama, Despite the Falling Snow.
Written and directed by Shamim Sarif – working from her own 2004 novel, no less – the spy thriller is rooted in the bitter-cold setting of Moscow which, during the late ’50s, was still in the thick of the Cold War. Ferguson plays Lauren, an American agent tasked with going undercover as Katya Grinkova to retrieve Russian military plans deemed crucial by her home country.
But those plans fall onto the back-burner once Ferguson’s lead meets Soviet big wig Alexander Ivanov (Sam Reid), a charming and idealistic politician with whom she strikes up a passionate relationship.
Here’s the official synopsis from Sarif’s novel:
In 1950s Moscow, communist Katya (Rebecca Ferguson) secretly spies for the...
Written and directed by Shamim Sarif – working from her own 2004 novel, no less – the spy thriller is rooted in the bitter-cold setting of Moscow which, during the late ’50s, was still in the thick of the Cold War. Ferguson plays Lauren, an American agent tasked with going undercover as Katya Grinkova to retrieve Russian military plans deemed crucial by her home country.
But those plans fall onto the back-burner once Ferguson’s lead meets Soviet big wig Alexander Ivanov (Sam Reid), a charming and idealistic politician with whom she strikes up a passionate relationship.
Here’s the official synopsis from Sarif’s novel:
In 1950s Moscow, communist Katya (Rebecca Ferguson) secretly spies for the...
- 2/22/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Hot off "Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation," breakout star Rebecca Ferguson has three movies on the way this year, including the Meryl Streep vehicle "Florence Foster Jenkins" and the hotly buzzed thriller "The Girl On The Train." But first is "Despite The Falling Snow," a Cold War drama that will find Ferguson in dual roles. Read More: Rebecca Ferguson Gets Back Into Action For 'Mission: Impossible 6' Directed by Shamim Sharif, and based on her own novel, the film co-stars Sam Reid and Charles Dance. The story kicks off when a Russian agent (Ferguson) seduces a U.S. politician in order to steal his secrets, only wind up falling for him. Thirty years later, the politician's niece, also played by Ferguson, tries to discover what happened to the Russian spy. Here's the book synopsis: After an early career amongst the political elite of Cold War Moscow, Alexander Ivanov has lived in...
- 2/19/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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