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Lee Wha Rang.
This North Korean movie, nearly 20 hours long, is about a North Korean spy ring's exploits in South Korea during the Korean War. It is based loosely on non-fictional real people and real events. It includes a cast of real people as well as fictional figures. It weaves a fascinating fictional story intertwined with actual events.
The clip above shows the dramatic moment when Yu Rim learns that his old sweetheart Kim Sun-hee is the famed ace agent Gold Diamond. Stay tuned for more clips from the movie.
The story begins in 1952 when the armistice talks were iffy and
savage fighting went on and off. It was a non-stop 'talk, talk, and
fight'. Kim Il Sung was in a dire need of accurate intelligence on the true
intention of the US military. Kim Il Sung wasn't sure if the US truly
wanted a truce. He needed a spy with access to the inner
command structure of the US military.
Photo: Yu Rim is met at Kimpo by his old Cambridge college friend Col. Park Mu - a scene from the Unsung Heroes.
Yu Rim (a fictional character based on a real South Korean reporter who was convicted of espionage and executed in 1955) was picked to be that man. Yu was the ideal choice for the job because of his connection with O'Neill, a wealthy influential British politician as well as his English journalist credential that allowed him access to high places. Yu was conscripted into the Japanese Army in 1942 while attending a college in Seoul. He was assigned a guard duty at a POW camp that housed British captives. One day, Yu saves the life of a British prisoner, the son of O'Neill. Later O'Neill saved Yu's life when he was captured by the British and adopted Yu into his family and gave him a large sum of money.
Yu studied journalism at Cambridge and upon graduation, he was hired by the London News as a reporter in Istanbul. He was recruited into the North Korean foreign intelligence service and received spy training in North Korea.
The opening scene of the movie shows a spy master giving Yu the final mission
instructions: Yu Rim is to gather intelligence on US military plans and, in
addition, he is to write news reports on events that would stir up anti-war sentiments in
the Great Britain and Europe for the purpose of breaking up the UN alliance. Yu boards a plane in Venice and lands at
Kimpo near Seoul.
Photo: Yu Rim meets Janet O'Neill and Col. Klause, the US CIC commander at Janet's home in Seoul - a scene from the Unsung Heroes.
Yu does not come to Seoul empty-handed. He is a close friend of Col. Park Mu, the chief press officer of the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA). Park and Yu studied together at the Cambridge University. Yu's secret contact in Seoul is Lee Hong-sik. Yu met Lee at a South Pacific island during World War II. Lee was also a student conscript and spent many months with Yu. Together they deserted the Japanese Army but in the process, they got separated, not to meet again until 1946 in Hon Kong when Lee, a North Korean spy, talked Yu into joining him. Another of Yu's contacts is Janet, a niece of O'Neill, who is married to Dr. Kelton, the master mind of the Korean War. Janet would provide valuable intelligence to Yu.
In
addition, Yu has Tom Driberg, a prominent British
Parliamentarian and a press officer in Korea. Tom is a Soviet spy and Yu is to
contact him only as the last measure in a dire emergency.
Photo: Tom Driberg - a British Parliament Member. He worked as a news reporter in 1950 and spied on US covert operations in N Korea. A few years later, he escaped to Moscow.
Yu Rim and Park Mu renew their Cambridge friendship by hitting the bars, drinking and having a good time. One night, Yu Rim gets the shock of his life. His college-day sweetheart. Kim Soon-hee shows up in the arms of Col. Klaus, the US CIC (Counter Intelligence Corp - a fictional figure) commander.
Park Mu tells Yu Kim's unusual story. When Seoul was occupied by Kim Il Sung's army in June 1950, Klaus left behind a trusted Korean female agent. This agent performed her job well by destroying People's Army ammo dumps and other military targets. When she was wounded, Kim Soon-hee risked her own life and carried the injured agent to safety. Klaus was impressed and grateful, and commissioned Kim Soon-hee a CIC lieutenant (Both US CIC and CIA have their own "internal" ranks, that are not recognized by any other entity).
How does Park
Mu know so much about Kim Soon-hee and Col. Klaus? Park confides to Yu that he,
too, works for Klaus. Park also gives Yu another piece of intelligence:
Major Gen. Shin Jae-sin (a fictional figure based on Maj. Gen. Lee Hyung-gun),
the ROKA First Army commander, is plotting to overthrow Rhee Syngman and set up
a military government that will continue the war. (This is based on a
real event known as the ROKA Mutiny Plot, hatched by Gen. Lee's staff. It
was uncovered by Rhee Syngman's secret police
headed by Kim Chang-ryong).
Photo: Lee Hyung-gun was the very first officer to be commissioned. He commanded ROKA First Corp and was the military governor of the occupied territories. Unlike the fictional character who commits suicide, Lee retired as a four-star general.
Shin's Army Group is the most powerful and successful. While other ROK army corps and US divisions folded and ran under Communist assaults, Shin's army pushed north and occupied a huge chunk of land that used to belong to Kim Il Sung. The military demarcation line starts miles north of the 38th on the east and dips miles south of the 38th at points south of Kaesung (formerly in South Korea). Gen Shin was mainly responsible for the jutting north of the demarcation line.
Gen. Shin is so powerful that even Rhee Syngman kowtows to
him. Rhee knows well that one word from Shin and his neck would be
broken. Yu Rim sees a red light flashing. If Shin succeeded in
his plot, the war would go on. Yu decides that Shin must be stopped somehow
and asks Park Mu to arrange a meeting with Gen. Shin.
Gen. Shin and his young Turks plotting to get rid of Rhee Syngman. This episode is based on an actual plot referred to as the East Coast Coup Plot. A scene from the Unsung Heroes.
In order to meet Gen. Shin, Yu has to get an OK from the US CIC and Park makes the arrangement for Yu to pick up his permit at the CIC HQ. To his surprise, his old sweetheart Lt. Kim Soon-hee is in charge of issuing permits. The old lovers avoid discussing the good old times and stick to the business at hand. Yu Rim meets the general who wants him to write news articles favorable for continuing the war.
Yu Rim makes another important contact when he visits Janet, O'Neill's niece and wife of Dr. Kelton. Col. Klaus learns about Yu's visit and beats him to Janet's residence. Klaus warns Janet not to discuss anything about her husband's activities. Yu arrives to find Klaus and Janet waiting for him. Janet introduces Klaus to Yu, a totally unexpected windfall for Yu because now he has a direct access to the top red hunter. Yu delivers gifts from Janet's uncle and Yu and Klaus, an archeologist, exchange pleasantries and chit-chat on archeology.
Yu Rim's streak of luck breaks eventually: Yu
Rim's partner and radioman, Lee Hong-sik is betrayed by an informer and executed by the US CIC.
Lee ran a book publishing business in Seoul as a cover for his spy
activities. He befriends Kim Su-gyong, a widow, and uses her as a
courier without her knowledge. Lee helped Kim set up a teahouse business and
they fell in love.
Photo. US CIC Lt. Kim Sun-hee is in actuality a North Korean agent code-named Gold Diamond. This fictional figure was based on a real agent who had befriended high-ranking American officers and collected intelligence from her 'boy friends'. The real spy escaped to North Korea and headed Kim Il Sung's counter-intelligence department. A scene from the Unsung Heroes.
Lee Hong-sik is instructed to place an ad in a newspaper - the ad is to say when and where to meet Yu Rim in codes. Yu Rim is to go to a fishing pier and ask where to find baits. He is directed to an ancient fort overlooking the pier, and there the two friends meet. Yu Rim gives Lee intelligence on Ike's new offensive and Lee succeeds in sending the message to Pyongyang.
At about the same time Pyongyang receives an urgent message from another agent - Gold Diamond. It says that the US CIC is about to arrest Lee Hong-sik. Lee is ordered to destroy his radio and escape, but Lee has a dilemma: Yu Rim is scheduled to show up at his hideout and Lee has no way of warning him. Lee decides to stay put until somehow he can warn Yu away. Yu Rim phones Lee from Kim Su Gyong's teahouse and Lee warns Yu about the imminent arrest. By this time, Lee's hideout is completely surrounded by the US CIC agents under the command of Lt. Kim Sun-hee, and there is no escaping. Lee dies in a shootout -- he sacrifices himself in order to protect Yu Rim.
The CIC tortures Lee's 17-year old secretary. She tells her torturer that she had carried packages to Kim Su-gyong for Lee. Soon, the CIC agents learn from a teahouse attendant that a foreign-looking man has phoned Lee from the teahouse. Col. Klaus correctly suspects that the foreign-looking man is Yu Rim.
Yu finds himself in a bind: he has collected critical intelligence that must be dispatched to Pyongyang immediately - but he has lost his radioman. He has no other choice but to use his last-resort contact and flies to Hong Kong. A North Korean agent, a popular singer, maintains a safe house. Yu meets his handler from Pyongyang and receives a new mission and a new radio operator code-named White Horse, an agent trusted by Pyongyang.
Upon his return to Seoul, Yu learns about Ike's secret meetings
in Seoul with Rhee Syngman and Chiang Kaisek's emissary from Taiwan. Ike
accepts Chiang's offer of 30,000 Nationalists troops in Korea and agrees to
compensate Chiang with money and modern arms. Ike floats the idea of
nuking North Korea but Rhee and his generals, most of whom are from North Korea,
are dead against nuking North Korea. They want liberate, not destroy,
North Korea where their relatives live.
Photo: US CIC Capt. Martin was a real person. He commanded South Korean paramilitary in North Korea in the fall of 1950. Martin was involved in the Sinchun massacre -- a scene from the Unsung Heroes.
Yu contacts White Horse to meet him so as to hand him the critical intelligence for transmittal to Pyongyang. But, unknown to Yu, White Horse is a double agent and informs the CIC of the planned meeting, and Col. Klaus sets a trap for Yu Rim. White Horse, a veteran North Korean spy, was captured by the US CIC in 1951 and saved his neck by becoming a double agent.
White Horse does not know that the agent he is supposed to work with is Yu Rim, and White Horse has never met Yu Rim. Yu Rim is ever cautious and stops by an antique shop by the designated meeting place and observes White Horse for a few min. Yu recognizes him from a mole on his forehead and the newspaper in his right hand. Yu detects some unusual nervousness in White Horse and also, spots a large number of strange characters lurking nearby. Yu smells a trap and decides to skip the meeting. Yu suspects that White Horse may be a double agent and plans to test him for his true color.
That night Park Mu shows up unexpectedly at Yu's hotel room and
asks Yu to compose a letter to Ike on behalf of Gen. Shin, who plans to mount a
coup. Gen. Shin believes that Rhee
Syngman is too old to lead the nation in war, and wants to get Ike's approval
for his planned coup. Gen. Shin has no one on his staff who is fluent in English
and wants Yu to write a professional letter to Ike.
Photo: Lt. Kim Sun-hee (Gold Diamond) and Gen. Kim Chang-ryong (a real figure, nicknamed the Snake by the Americans), Rhee's secret police chief are close personal friends. Sun-hee used to work for Kim's secret police before she was hired away by Col. Klaus. A scene from the Unsung Heroes.
Yu sees a golden opportunity to test White Horse. Yu agrees to write the letter and asks Gen. Shin to send a courier to pick it up at a secret rendezvous. Gen. Shin wants this affair kept secret from Rhee's police and agrees. Yu signals White Horse to meet Yu at the same place and time. In this way, White Horse would mistake Gen. Shin's agent for Yu Rim, and Yu Rim would be able to see if White Horse is sincere or not.
As expected by Yu Rim, White Horse informs Col. Klaus of the new meeting. At the
appointed time, Gen. Shin's agent shows up to pick up the letter from Yu Rim and White Horse mistakes
Shin's agent for
Yu. The whistle blows and Col. Klaus' men move in and shoot Shin's agent when
he tries to escape.
Col. Klaus seduces Park Mu's pretty flirtatious wife and induces her to spy on her own husband. A scene from the Unsung Heroes.
Yu Rim is now certain that White Horse is a double agent but he has no way to radio this critical information to Pyongyang - except a British officer, Louise, Yu has recruited. Yu instructs Louise to allow himself to be captured by North Koreans and deliver Yu's letter. Louise is to receive spy training in Pyongyang and then 'escape' back Seoul.
Gen. Shin is enraged and suspects a foul play by the US CIC. He is told that White Horse, an American spy, is the one responsible for the fiasco and has him assassinated. Gen. Shin gets the letter from Yu and sends it to Ike, and Ike is pleased and promises to make Gen. Shin the chief-of-staff of the South Korean army in the near future. Meanwhile, Gen. Shin earns another star and his power base widens rapidly with Ike behind him.
Yu Rim has no way of knowing if his British courier has made it or not. Days and weeks pass by without any word from Pyongyang. On the New Year's Eve, Yu Rim visits Lee Hong-sik's grave. To his surprise, he finds Kim Su-gyong, the teahouse owner, weeping at the graveside, and realizes that they were close personal friends. Yu Rim decides to recruit Kim Su-gyong as his courier.
Col. Klaus receives information on Yu Rim from the British intelligence and calls in Yu Rim for interrogation. Yu's statements match with the records from England. Klaus' sixth sense tells him that Yu's records are too clean. Col. Klaus does find one soft spot, however. Yu has stated that his wife lives in Istanbul and Klaus finds it strange that Yu has not sent her any letter or money for over a year. How come? Yu is caught off guard and realizes the hole in his cover story. Smelling blood, Klaus goes on the offensive and informs Yu that Yu's wife has never lived at the Istanbul address given by Yu. Yu admits that he has lied about his wife and tells Klaus that she died several years ago -- a personal tragedy he does not wish to talk about. Klaus had not anticipated this answer and failed to check out Yu's wife's grave registration in Istanbul. Yu is let go - for now.
Two months after his British courier's departure, Yu Rim finally receives a coded message from Radio Pyongyang. The courier has made it OK and Yu is instructed to meet a fellow agent codenamed Gold Diamond. Yu learns that his old sweetheart, Lt. Kim Soon-hee, is in fact Gold Diamond, a North Korean agent planted in the US CIC in 1950. Lt. Kim, Gold Diamond, is a winner of the coveted People's Hero metal. Both Yu and Lt. Kim drive Jeep and get refueled at an army fuel depot in Seoul, which makes an ideal contact point. Lt. Kim would drop coded messages and microfilm rolls in a waste basket at the depot and Yu would casually walk over and pick them up.
The plot thickens. Rhee Syngman is jealous of Gen. Shin's cozy relationship with Ike and wants to find an excuse to clip the young general's wings. Kim Chang-ryong, Rhee's secret police chief, is ordered to do something to dethrone the general. It turns out that Kim Su-gyung's dead husband was a nephew of Gen. Shin. Shin is from North Korea and has lost contact with with his relatives. Kim Chang-ryong informs Gen. Shin that he has found his nephew's wife and daughter. The general is happy to find long-lost relatives and have them move into his mansion. Kim Chang-ryong has planted an informer right under the general's nose. The US plays both sides: the last thing Ike wants is a coup in the middle of war but on the other hand, Ike wants to get rid of Rhee who has become hard to manage. (Actually, the US had a contingency plan code-named Everready to replace Rhee with a more manageable military government.)
Gen. Shin is no amateur. He has an agent, code-named Shark, planted in the US CIC, and Kim Chang-ryong's deputy reports secretly to Gen. Shin. Kim Chang-ryong is no amateur, either. Unknown to Shin, Shark sells US CIC secrets to both Kim and Shin. Although Shin controls an army corps, Kim controls the police and military security organs. Shin has Ike's backing and Kim has Rhee's backing. Neither Kim nor Shin has enough muscles to punch out the other, and so, they play cat and mouse games looking for an opportunity.
Yu's
new radio operator agent arrives safely by an airdrop and settles down
disguised as a disabled ROKA war veteran. The agent would receive coded
messages hidden in cigarette filters. Everyday when Yu returns to his
hotel, the agent would stand amongst the beggars gathered in front of the hotel begging
for alms.
Photo: A North Korean spy plane, a World War I vintage biplane. It is a simple, sturdy no-luxury plane, cheap to build and maintain. It is able to land and take off on short runways and to glide silently with the engine shut down. It can fly low and land silently behind enemy lines.
Yu would take out a half-finished cigarette from his mouth and throw it down at the foot of the agent, who would pick it and take a couple of puffs and then put the rest in his pocket. The CIC films Yu's activities and Col. Klaus and his staff watch the cigarette scene but none of them except Lt. Kim sees the hot spot. She sneaks in the film storage room and cuts out the incriminating frames.
A few days later, Col. Klaus is informed about a North Korean agent disguised as a disabled veteran. The bell rings in Klaus's head and he wants to review the cigarette clip again. But to his astonishment, the clip shows no disabled veteran. Klaus suspects a spy in his inner circle and by a process of elimination, he concludes that Lt. Kim must be the guilty one. Klaus confronts Lt. Kim but she points out that the film room is used by a number of Korean employees and any one of them could have done it.
Klaus decides to set up a trap for Lt. Kim. He sends her to Tokyo on a rest and recreation. Upon her arrival, she is kidnapped by a group of 'Communists', who threatens to execute her for her arrest and execution of a North Korean agent. Lt. Kim finds herself in a dilemma: should she tell her kidnappers that she is on their side or play the role of a red hunter. Her sixth sense tells her this may be a trap and she decides to shoot her way out. Her miraculous escape hits the front pages in Japan and the CIC promotes her to a CIC captain.
Capt. Kim is reinstated and Klaus begins to doubt his aid, Capt. Martin. Klaus knows that Martin wants his job badly and that he would do anything to get it - even to the point of sabotaging Klaus' works. Klaus cannot touch Martin because Martin has some influential backers in Washington who think Klaus is not doing a good job. Some of them even suspect that Klaus may be a Soviet spy.
Yu Rim obtains a critical intelligence about an impending campaign by the US military. This battle plan is kept super secret and only a handful of key persons are privy to this plan, Col. Park being one of the few. Yu Rim gets this secret from his old friend Park and sends it to Pyongyang. Thus, forewarned the red armies mount a massive preemptive strike on the troops and supplies assembled for the secret campaign. Col. Klaus suspects, correctly, Park as the leak and Yu Rim as the spy. Park realizes that the only way to save his neck is to eliminate the evidence - that is, kill his old friend, Yu Rim. Park shoots Yu but not fatally. Yu is rushed to a hospital but the chief surgeon demands a huge fee for his service - no surgery until he is paid. Gen. Sin steps in to save Yu's life. The old general orders the surgeon to save Yu's life - or else. Yu's life is saved. While Yu is incapacitated, Captain Kim Soon-hee searches Yu's hotel room and gets rid of incriminating items.
Yu
Rim finds an ideal way to defang Gen. Sin's coup plotters and also get rid of
his old friend Park in the person of Kim Chang-ryong. Kim was a corporal
in the Japanese military police in Manchuria and killed dozens upon dozens of
Korean nationalists (Red bandits). After Liberation, he came to Seoul and
joined Rhee's camp as his point-man in Rhee's ruthless campaign to rid his army
of any officer who might be disloyal to him. The list of purged included
leftists, nationalists, Kim Gu followers - just about anyone who had not served
in the Japanese army.
Photo: Gen. Kim Chang-ryong was a real person and he was Rhee Syngman's chief executioner. He was assassinated in 1956 by his own men. It was he who busted Gen. Shin's coup attempt - an actual event.
Kim Chang-ryong commands the ROKA CIC and suspects that Gen. Sin is up to something but he has no hard evidence to move against the all-powerful general. Yu Rim informs Gen. Sin that Park is a double agent working for Kim Chang-ryong and the US CIC, whereupon Gen. Sin orders Park shot immediately. On the way to his execution ground, Capt. Martin snatches Park from his executioners. Martin believes that Park may be of some use to him in his scheme to topple Klaus. At the same time, Yu Rim provides Kim Chang-ryong with Gen. Jin's coup plan, whereupon Kim acts swiftly and arrests the plotters. Thus Gen. Sin's threat to continue the war is eliminated.
Yu Rim gets an unexpected bonanza. George Blake, a red spy who trained with Yu at North Korea's spy school, arrives in Seoul as the chief of the British spy service M15 in Korea. In the movie, Louis plays the role of Blake.
Photo:
George
Blake, chief of British Intelligence (MI6) in S Korea,
"captured" by the N Korean Army on June 28, 1950 in Seoul. Blake was
uncovered as a Russian spy and arrested in 1961. Blake escaped to the USSR in
1966.
George is assigned to work under Yu Rim and provides numerous critical intelligence to Yu. However, Col. Klaus does not think much of MI6 and keeps the Britons in the dark. Klaus suspects that Blake may be a Soviet spy and starts a secret investigation of Blake's murky background.
It does not take long for Klaus to determine that Blake is indeed a Soviet Spy and Capt. Kim Soon-hee passes on this discovery to Yu Rim, and Yu contacts Pyongyang with the bad news. Pyongyang arranges Blake's immediate escape on a freighter disguised as a seaman. Thus Blake's service to Yu Rim is cut short.
Col. Klaus knows that Yu Rim and Blake met often and the noose around Yu's neck gets tighter. To make the matter worse, Kim Chang-ryung's goons pinpoint the location of Yu Rim's clandestine radio transmitter and surrounds the are and move in for the kill. Capt. Kim Soon-hee gets wind of the impending raid on the radio and gets to the site one step ahead of Kim Chang-ryong's men. The radio operator is transmitting a critical intelligence to Pyongyang and needs two more minutes to complete the transmission. Capt. Kim fends off the attackers with a submachine gun and buys the operator enough time to complete the radio work. But the operator is hit and Capt. Kim drags him to safety. Kim Chang-ryong captures the radio and some tell-tale foot prints of a female helping a wounded man. It would be a matter of days before the female accomplice is identified. Capt. Kim's days are numbered.
Col. Klaus decides to close the noose around Yu Rim's neck and orders Janet brought in for interrogation. Capt. Kim realizes that Janet might squeal on Yu Rim and decides to act fast in order to save Yu Rim's life even if it meant death to her. She picks up Janet on the pretext of an official CIC business and kills her at a remote site. Unfortunately for Kim, this site happens to be where the renegade fugitive Park hangs around. Park witnesses the whole thing and kills Capt. Kim. Park figures he has enough to redeem himself with Col. Klaus. But Yu Rim learns of Park's evil deed and kills his old wartime friend.
The armistice is finally sealed and signed and the UN press corps is disbanded. Yu's job is done and his days are numbered: Yu expects to be arrested by Klaus at any time. Yet, with the radio gone, he has no way to contact Pyongyang for instructions. He decides to send his radio operator to Pyongyang - a perilous journey with little chance of success. Yu is caught between a rock and a hard place. If the radio operator stayed, he will be arrested and shot sooner or later. He would have at least a fighting chance to make it back. And he does make it back.
Yu Rim receives a coded message on Radio Pyongyang: "Please come home my dear son. Your mother is anxiously waiting for you. Come home as soon as you can." Yu's long ordeal is about to end. He is going home at last. He joins a group of UN reporters going home at Kimpo. When he is about to board the plane, Col. Klaus shows up alone in his Jeep and wants to have a talk with Yu Rim. Yu walks over to Klaus's jeep wondering what the old fox is up to. Klaus wants to say goodbye: Klaus the warrior wants to salute Yu the warrior as an worthy enemy. The two mortal enemies part amicably and Yu Rim's plane takes off.
In the closing scene of the movie, Col. Claus shoots his brains out. He has had enough and his ordeal is finally over, too.
이름없는 영웅들 내 용 :
예술영화. 1978년-1981년제작. 흑백색. 광폭. 연출 류호손.
1부 《적후에서》(1978년, 7권), 2부 《적후에서 또 적후에로》(1978년 7권), 3부《적후에서 홀로》(1979년 9권), 4부《옛성터에서》(1979년 7권), 5부《금강석》(1979년 12권),6부 《한밤중의 저격사건》(1979년 8권), 7부 《정적속에서의 전투》(1979년 8권), 8부 《위험한 대결》(1980년7권), 9부 《안개작전》(1980년 7권), 10부 《위기》(1980년 7권), 11부 《일요일에 있은 일》(1980년 7권),12부 《웃음속에 비낀 그늘》(1980년 8권), 13부 《판문점》(1980년 7권), 14부 《죽음의 섬》(1980년 7권), 15부《달없는 그밤에》(1980년 9권), 16부 《전투는 계속된다》(1980년 7권), 17부 《유인》(1980년 7권), 18부 《운명》(1980년 7권), 19부 《붉은 저녁노을》(1981년 9권),20부 《우리는 잊지 않는다》(1981년 7권),
영화는 지난조국해방전쟁시기 정전담판의 막뒤에서 미제가 꾸미고있는 음모를 알아낼데 대한 임무를 받고 적후에서 활동한 조선인민군정찰병들의 대담하고 슬기로운 투쟁을 보여주고있다. 영화는 주인공 유림이가 유엔군에 종군하는 영국기자의 신분으로 서울에 침투하는데로부터 시작된다.
유림은 비행장에서 대학동창인 피뢰륙군보도처장 박무를 만난다. 악랄한 계극적원쑤인 박무는
리승만괴뢰정권을 뒤집어엎고 남조선에 새로운 군부정권을 세우려는 음모에
가담하며 유림이를 이에 끌어들이려고 한다. 미8군첩보대장
클라우스는 유림에게 미행을 붙이고그를 감시한다. 미군첩보대에는 또한
유림이가 언제나잊지 않고있는 첫사랑인
순희가 첩보장교로
근무하고있었다. 유림은 앞에 가로 놓인 난관을 주동적으로 이겨
나갈 결심을
가지고 대담하게 조선정전담판의 막후 조종자인 겔톤을
공작대상으로 정하고 그의 처인 쟌네트를 찾아간다. 그러나
클라우스가 나타나 뜻을 이루지못하게 된 유림은 박무를 통하여 반정부음모의
우두머리인 군단장 신재신을 만나 미제가 극비밀리에 추진시키고있는
《신공세》의 내막을 알아낸다. 유림은 무전수인 홍식을 호출하여 본부에
무전을 날린다. 아지트가로출되여 홍식은 희생된다.
금강식》이라는 적후공작원의 통보로 이 사실을 알게 된 본부에서는 유림을 홍콩으로 불러 새로운 임무와 함께 무전수 《백마》와의 접선통로를 넘겨준다. 서울에 돌아온 유림은《백마》를 검토하는 과정에 그가 적들이 박아놓은 밀정이라는것을 알고 이미 사귀여온 영국장교 루이스에게 새 정보를 주어전선을 넘겨보낸다. 홍식이와 《백마》사건으로 하여 유림은 미군첩보대에 련행되여 가며 거기서 클라우스의보좐관인 마팅의 심문을 받게 된다. 그러나 유림은 슬기와 예지로 닥쳐온 위기를 무사히 넘긴다.
설날아침홍식의 무덤을 찾은 유림은 뜻박에도 《마돈나》다방주인숙영을 알게 되며 홍식을 사모하던 그를 투쟁의 길로이끌어주리라 결심한다. 이 시기 필요한 증원병력을 받지 못하고있던 미제는 동맹국들의 사기를 돋구어줄 기도밑에 정형고지전투를 조직한다. 박무를 토하여 이 비밀정보는 유림에게 넘어간다.
드디여 유림은 본부로부터 《금강석》과 접선하라는 련략을 받는다. 그리하여 준엄안 적후투쟁의 길에서 유림은 순희(《금강석》)와의 극적인 상봉을 나눈다. 정형고지전투를 서막으로 하는 미제의 《신공세》작전은 대참패로 끝난다. 크라우스앞에서이에 대한 책임을 지게 된 박무는 유림을 의심하고 한밤중에 그를 저격한다. 유림은 중상을 당한다. 혁명동지이며 애인인 유림을 돕기 위해 순희는 모든것을 다한다.
그는 여러차례의 모험을 하는 과정에 점차 클라우스와 마팅의 의심을 받고 계속 검토를 받게 된다. 순희는 클라우스의 모략에 의하여 먼 이국땅에 랍치되여가굴욕적인 심문을 받을 때에도 오직 유림의 안전과 《두만강》조의 임무를 위하여 희생적인 투쟁을 벌려나간다.순희의 적극적인 도움으로 유림은 영국구회 의원인 오넬을 통하여 영국고용병의 조선전선증원책동을 저지시키며 죽음의 섬 거제도에 들어가 포로문제와 관련한 적들의 음모도 알아낸다. 이 시기 극우익장교파의 반정부음모를 지켜보고있던 특무대장 김창룡은 리승만으로부 터 신재선패거리들을 들어낼데 대한 임무를 받는다. 이사실을 알게 된 유림은 숙영을 통하여 놈들의 모순과알륵을 더욱 조장시키게 함으로써 적들에게 커다란 타격과 혼란을 준다. 이 간고한 투쟁의 길에서 유림은 미더운 전우들인 《찔레꽃》과 숙영을 잃게 되며 루이스와도 헤여지게 된다.
본부에서는 새로운 무전수 두진을유림에게 보낸다. 정전담판의 막뒤에서 꾸미고있는 적들의 극비자료는 두진을 통하여 본부에 련락된다. 한편미중앙정보국은 제놈들의 중요한 전략적정보들이 사전에 우리측에 통보되고있는것과 관련하여 피눈이 되여물샐틈없는 수사망을 펼친다. 유림의 신변에 또다시 위험이 닥쳐온다. 동지들의 안전을 보장하기 위하여 순희는 첩보대의 기밀문서고에서 유림이와 두진이 접선하는필림을 없애버린다. 순희에 대한 검토를 계속 해오던클라우스는 드디여 그를 없애버리려고 한다. 자기에게위험이 닥쳐온 순간 순희는 유림을 끝까지 엄호하고 그 가 워싱톤의 중요한 비밀을 알고있는 켈톤을 만날 길을열어주기 위하여 쟌네트를 유인하여 없애버리고 추격해오는 적들과의 격전끝에 장렬한 최후를 마친다. 유림은순희의 희생적인 방조로 이루어진 쟌네트의 장례장에서백악관이 파견한 흉악한 적수인 켈톤을 만나게 되고 그후 그자와 대결하여 결판을 내며 박무를 처단하고 클라우스에게 최종적인 패배를 안긴후 서울을 떠난다.
영화는 20부에 달하는 방대한 화폭을 통하여 우리 인민이미제를 타승한 조국해방전쟁의 한 력사적시기를 세계적판도에 걸쳐 폭넓게 보여주면서 사랑하는 어머니 조국을 위하여 청춘도 생명도 서슴없이 바쳐싸운 인민군정찰병들의 숭고한 조국애와 영웅적위훈을 감명깊이 형상하였다. 우리 인민에게 있어서 조국은 목숨보다 더 귀중하며 조국을 위하여 고귀한 생을 바친 이름없는 영웅들의 위훈을 우리는 잊지 않는다는것, 이것이 이 작품이 제기하고있는 기본문제성이다. 작품에서 이것은 《런던뉴스》기자의 신분을 가지고 적후에서 활동하는 주인 공 유림과 《금강석》의 대호를 가지고 미8군첩보대본부에서 공작하는 순희의 형상을 통하여 심오히 밝혀지고있다.
영화의 주인공들인 유림과 순희는 조국에 대한불타는 사랑과 혁명임무에 대한 끝없는 충성심을 안고헌신적으로 투쟁하는 주체형의 인간전형이다. 영화에서는 그들이 본부에서 준 어려운 전투임무를 훌륭히 수행할수 있은것은 조국을 사랑하는 마음이 누구보다 절절하고 승리에 대한 확신이 차넘쳐있었기때문이라는 것을웅심깊게 보여주고있다. 이러한 숭고하고도 억센 정신적힘을 지니고있음으로 하여 유림과 순희는 간고한 적후투쟁의 길에서도 서로 피를 나눈 혈육보다 더 뜨거운 혁명적동지애를 높이 발양하며 청춘도, 사랑도, 리상도,개인의 행복도 이 길우에서 꽃피워나간다.
영화는 또한조선전쟁의 조종자의 한놈인 켈톤, 교활하고 간악한8군첩보대장 클라우스, 영국군회 하원의원 오넬, 미제의 주구이며 《반공》광신자인 박무와 정권야욕에 미쳐날뛰는 신재선, 김창룡 등 적들의 형상을 통하여 자기 개인을 위해서는 나라도, 법도, 도덕도 모르는 제국주의사환군들의 저렬한 정신도덕상태와 그 멸망의 불가피성을 예리하게 밝히고있다. 영화는 심오한 사상적내용과함께 풍부하고 특색있는 예술적형상을 창조하는데서도 성과를 이룩하였다.
이 영화에서 많이 리용되고있는 설화 들은 모두 깊은 뜻을 가지고 작품의 주제사상과 주인공들로 하여금 영화의 사건들을 정확히 리해하도록 하는데 도움을 주고있다. 조국의 부름을 받고 북쪽으로 날아가는 기러기때를 바라보며 어머니조국에 대한 그리움으로 가슴설레이는 주인공 유림의 내면세계를 정서적으로 펼쳐보여주는 설화시와 순희의 희생장면 그리고 유림이가 홍콩에 가서 오래간만에 조국의 담배를 받아들고 먼 북녘하늘을 바라보며 고향을 그리는 장면에서 울리는 설화들이 그러한 대표적실례로 된다.
영화는 또한인테리인 주인공에게 맞는 세련되고 뜻이 깊은 대사들,력사적사실들을 힘있게 증명하는 기록영화화면의 삽입,등장인물들의 내면세계를 깊이있고도 진지하게 펼쳐나가는 촬영수법, 생활을 진실하게 반영한 미술, 섬세하고도 개성적인 연기형상 등 영화형상전반에서 높은 경지를 보여주었다. 특히 다시는 돌아오지 못할수도 있는적후 투쟁의 어려운 임무를 받고 혁명전사가 끝없는 수림속을 걸어가면서 품는, 당과 수령을 위하여, 조국과인민을 위하여 한목숨 다바쳐 싸우리라는 충성의 감정을 안겨주는 주제곡 《충서의 마음》을 첫장면에서부터마지막장면까지 일관하게 끌고나감으로써 양상의 통일을 훌륭히 실현한것과 같은 창작성과를 이룩하였다. 우리 당의 독창적인 문예방침에 의하여 창작된 영화는 위대한 수령님께 끝없이 충직한 인민군정찰병들의 영웅적위훈과 숭고한 조국애를 폭넓고 깊이있게 형상한 대작으로서 정탐물영화창작에서 우리 영화예술이 이룩한새로운 리정표로 된다.
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