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The article analyzes the 2003 war/thriller film "Spy Sorge," directed by Masahiro Shinoda. Topics covered include the difference in his depiction of characters compared to other Japanese directors such as Akira Kurosawa, the film's dispassionate and measured style which may appear strange for western audiences, and how the film exhibits the director's perennial theme of the conflict between social obligations and personal desire.

The biography of Ivar Lissner is presented – a person, who worked in the Far-Eastern region in 30–40 th of the XX century and actually repeated the fate of the Soviet Military Intelligence member Richard Sorge. Lissners destiny reflected all those spiritual flingings typical of the German youths of the period between two World Wars; he went through the stage of enthusiasm from the seeming start of German Renaissance when Hitler came to power, bitter offence from the sudden society`s rejection when his non-arian origin get clear, to oppressive disappointment from his compatriots` betrayal, when he was put into Japanese prison.

The biography of Ivar Lissner is presented. He worked in the Far-East in the 1930s and 1940s and actually repeated the fate of the Soviet Military Intelligence officer Richard Sorge.

The biography of Ivar Lissner is presented. He worked in the Far-East in the 1930s and 1940s and actually repeated the fate of the Soviet Military Intelligence officer Richard Sorge.