Topaz story
Topaz is a 1969 American espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on the 1967 novel of the same title by Leon Uris, the film is about a French intelligence agent (Stafford) who becomes entangled in Cold War politics before the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and then the breakup of an international Soviet spy ring.
11 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| espionage | choice | The story concerns American, Russian, and French secret agent shenanigans in Cuba and elsewhere during the Cold War. |
| communism | major | The story concerned the virtues or otherwise of the political system in Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. |
| defection | major | Boris Kusenov defected from Russia to the West and revealed that nuclear warheads would be placed in Cuba. This is the premise of the story. |
| husband and wife | major | There is marital strife between André and Nicole as she disapproves of his job and suspects him of having a mistress in Cuba. |
| nuclear weapons | major | The story concerns the attempt by Russia to place nuclear warhead in Cuba. |
| the Cold War | major | The story concerned the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| choosing whether to kill someone to spare them suffering | minor | Rico shot Juanita to save her from being tortured. |
| extramarital affair | minor | André had an affair with Juanita behind Nicole's back. |
| father and daughter | minor | Boris and Tamara. |
| master and servant | minor | Juanit's domestic staff helped with the espionage. |