Requiem for a Secret Agent

Requiem for a Secret Agent
Directed bySergio Sollima
Written bySergio Donati
Antonio del Amo
Sergio Sollima
Produced byAlberto Grimaldi
StarringStewart Granger
Daniela Bianchi
Peter van Eyck
Giulio Bosetti
María Granada
Benny Deus
Luis Induni
Enrique Navarro
Franco Andrei
Mirella Pamphili
John Karlsen
Gianni Rizzo
Giorgia Moll
CinematographyCarlo Carlini
Music byAntonio Pérez Olea
Piero Umiliani (uncredited)
Release date
  • 15 October 1966 (1966-10-15)
Running time
102 minutes
CountriesItaly
Spain
West Germany
Box office203,014 admissions (France)
1,129,042 admissions (Spain)[1]

Requiem for a Secret Agent (also known as Requiem per un agente segreto) is an Italian international co-production Eurospy film. It was co-produced with Spain (where it was released as Consigna: Tánger 67) and West Germany (where it was released as Der Chef schickt seinen besten Mann).

The film was directed by Sergio Sollima. It was Sollima's third and last Eurospy film and the first he directed under his real name (in the two previous spy films he was credited as Simon Sterling).[2] It was shot in Morocco.[3][4]

  1. ^ Box office information for Stewart Granger films in France at Box Office Story
  2. ^ Lino Miccichè. Storia del cinema italiano, Vol.11. Edizioni di Bianco & nero, 2002. p. 162. ISBN 88-317-7850-1.
  3. ^ Jack G. Shaheen (2009). Reel bad Arabs: how Hollywood vilifies a people. Olive Branch Press, 2009. p. 423. ISBN 978-1-56656-752-7.
  4. ^ Marco Giusti (2010). 007 all'italiana. Isbn Edizioni, 2010. pp. 211–212. ISBN 978-88-7638-187-4.