He fears he will be caught soon and, instead of dying in vain, instructs Dominika to expose his identity to Ivan. He explains that he was initially patriotic, but became disillusioned by Russia's corruption when a bureaucrat he had once offended refused to allow an American doctor to operate on his sick wife. She wakes in a hospital where General Vladimir Korchnoi, a high-ranking official working with Ivan, reveals himself as Marble. She initially assists Matorin with torturing Nash until Matorin lowers his guard and she kills him, but is badly injured while doing so. Instead, she convinces Nash to relocate her and her mother to America.Īfter spending the night with Nash, Dominika awakes to find him being tortured by Matorin for Marble's identity. Volontov is executed, but Dominika's claims of innocence are eventually believed by Ivan, and she is allowed to return to Budapest to continue her original mission of extracting Marble's identity from Nash. Suspected of tipping off the Americans, Dominika and Volontov are recalled to Moscow where they are tortured and interrogated for days. Russian agents observing Boucher realize their mission has been compromised. When she leaves the meeting, Boucher realizes that she is being observed by American intelligence agents she panics, backs into traffic, and is struck and killed. Under Russian orders, Dominika travels to London with Volontov to meet Boucher and complete the trade, but covertly switches out the intelligence Boucher supplies with CIA-supplied disinformation. Dominika contacts Nash, agrees to become a double agent in exchange for protection for her and her mother, and has sex with him. Marta is brutally killed by the SVR for apparently sharing her classified mission with Dominika and warning Dominika what will happen to her if she fails. When Ivan pressures Dominika about her slow progress with Nash, Dominika claims to be helping Marta with Boucher as well. Dominika makes contact with Nash, who quickly determines she is a Russian intelligence operative and attempts to convince her to defect.ĭominika inspects Marta's room and realizes that Marta has been assigned to buy classified intelligence from Stephanie Boucher, the chief of staff to a U.S. In Budapest, Dominika lives with another sparrow named Marta Yelenova, and is supervised by SVR station chief Maxim Volontov. Against the Matron's recommendation, Ivan and General Korchnoi decide that Dominika is ready for an assignment in Budapest-to gain Nash's trust and expose Marble's identity. Dominika excels in her training, despite some friction with her trainer, known only as the Matron. Since he cannot return to Russia, he is assigned to Budapest to reestablish contact with Marble, which the SVR also deduce.ĭominika is sent to State School 4, a brutal specialist training school for "Sparrows"-SVR operatives capable of seducing their targets with sexpionage. but insists he is the only person with whom Marble will work. Nash creates a diversion to ensure his asset, a mole in Russian ranks code-named Marble, escapes unidentified.
While meeting with an asset in Gorky Park, they are confronted by the police. Nate Nash is a CIA operative working in Moscow. Ivan offers Dominika a choice: become an SVR operative, or be executed for witnessing Ustinov's assassination. During this act, he is killed by Sergei Matorin, an SVR operative authorized by Ivan. Meeting at a bar, the two go to her private room, where he rapes her. She is tasked with seducing Dimitry Ustinov, a Russian gangster, in exchange for her mother's continued medical care. Following a career-ending injury, Dominika is approached by her uncle Ivan, the deputy director of the SVR. In modern-day Russia, beautiful Dominika Egorova is a famous ballerina who supports her ill mother. The film grossed $151 million worldwide, becoming a modest box-office success, and received mixed reviews from critics, who described it as having "more style than substance" and criticized the film's long running time and over-reliance on graphic violence and sex, while praising Jennifer Lawrence's performance. on February 15, 2018, and was released in the United States on March 2, 2018.
Red Sparrow premiered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Based on historic Soviet sexpionage and contemporary Russian use of kompromat, filming took place in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria. Matthews, a former member of the CIA, advised the production on the depiction of spying. It tells the story of a Russian intelligence officer, who is sent to make contact with a CIA officer in the hope of discovering the identity of a mole. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jeremy Irons. Red Sparrow is a 2018 American spy thriller film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by Justin Haythe, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Jason Matthews.
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