The Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain (2025)

2025

Mystery / Thriller

5.9 from 10 with total 18 votes

1948-06-16

87 minutes

The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.

Dana Andrews character Igor Gouzenko

Gene Tierney character Anna Gouzenko

June Havoc character Nina Karanova

Berry Kroeger character John Grubb, aka 'Paul'

Edna Best character Mrs. Albert Foster

Stefan Schnabel character Col. Ilya Ranov

Nicholas Joy character Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'

Eduard Franz character Maj. Semyon Kulin

Frederic Tozere character Col. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)