About the film: year - 2006 / 1 hour 37 min drama / detective story / Plot of the film “Illegal”: The film takes place in the 1970s, when the cold war was at its height. Soviet intelligence officers obtain important documents in Western Europe and then courier them to the USSR. In order for the couriers to be able to cross the border safely and not expose the obtained information to the risk of declassification, the Soviet intelligence services decide to install a GRU officer at the Leningrad customs office. An experienced agent is called to this task, whom no one knows in his homeland, as he has been working in Helsinki for many years. To develop a new legend, the intelligence officer will have to become an illegal immigrant in his own country..