Love Nights in the Taiga
Directed by	Harald Philipp
Written by	Heinz G. Konsalik (novel) Werner P. Zibaso
Produced by	Jürgen Goslar Franz Seitz
Starring	Thomas Hunter Marie Versini Stanislav Ledinek
Cinematography	Helmut Meewes
Edited by	Ingeborg Taschner
Music by	Manfred Hübler
Production company	Franz Seitz Filmproduktion
Distributed by	Nora-Filmverleih
Release date	5 October 1967 (1967-10-05)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Love Nights in the Taiga (German: Liebesnächte in der Taiga) is a 1967 West German thriller film directed by Harald Philipp and starring Thomas Hunter, Marie Versini and Stanislav Ledinek.^[1] It is also known by the alternative title of Code Name Kill.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Stratil. It is an adaptation of the 1966 novel of the same title by Heinz G. Konsalik.

At the height of the Cold War, the CIA send a Russian-speaking Baltic German to the Soviet Union disguised as a Swiss fashion journalist. His real mission is to gather intelligence on a missile base concealed in the taiga forests of Siberia. He receives assistance from a Soviet woman who falls in love with him.

• Thomas Hunter as Frank Heller
• Marie Versini as Ludmilla Barankova
• Stanislav Ledinek as Colonel Karpuchin
• Ivan Desny as Colonel Kirk
• Rolf Boysen [de] as Karpuchin
• Biggi Freyer as Marta Barinskaya
• Hellmut Lange as Captain Jimmy Braddock
• Walter Barnes as Jurij
• Magda Konopka as Bibi Randall
• Christiane Nielsen as Tanja
• Kurd Pieritz as Kusnezoff
• Sandra Prinsloo as Nadja
• Marius Weyers as Markjoff

• Peter Cowie & Derek Elley. World Filmography: 1967. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977.

• Love Nights in the Taiga at IMDb

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