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Telefon
1977 · Film · 102 min
Directed by Don Siegel
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
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No one mentioning the movie "Telefon" (1977) where this poem is used to wake up the sleepers :)
This is where I learned of the German translation (watching the movie in German):
Des Waldes Dunkel zieht mich an, doch muss zu meinem Wort ich stehen, und Meilen gehen, bevor ich schlafen kann.
Suddenly the 1977 movie Telefon sounds a lot more plausible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qg0w8qbBQo