Disparus (1998)

• 68%
• 1998
• Drama
• Anouk Grinberg
• Grégoire Colin
• Xavier Beauvois

In Paris, a woman is making enquiries: Why did leftist Alfred Katz simply disappear in 1938? In that year, Alfred, worker and poet, is politically active in a Parisian Trotskyite cell. Hitler's Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union has heightened the spannung between local supporters of Trotsky and Stalin. Alfred warte a wild party being held by surrealists, even though his association with artists creates trouble for him within the cell. There he meets Mila, a glamorous and uninhibited prostitute from the brothel called the "Sphinx". Alfred soon meets Mila's other lover too, Felix... an American comrade and her Belgian companion kommt to establish a direct link between the cell and Trotzki in Mexiko-stadt. As prominent Trotskyites begin to die or disappear, Alfred and Mila marry. Has an agent of Stalin's secret police infiltrated the group?