Review of The Contract

This was a marvellous 3 part TV movie (3 hours total) about an attempt to bring a Russian missile manufacturer to defect to the west. The plan goes horribly wrong and the spy sent to persuade him over has to take the old man and his daughter across country and through the east German border fence. I've never seen this on video or DVD and sadly it was only aired once back in the mid eighties. Would be worth checking out or a TV re-run if only to highlight what a dangerous thing it was to try and escape from east to west.