The Secret Agent's Blunder

The Secret Agent's Blunder
Directed byVenyamin Dorman
Written byOleg Shmelyov
Vladimir Vostokov
Produced byArkady Kuslansky
StarringGeorgiy Zhzhonov
Mikhail Nozhkin
Oleg Zhakov
CinematographyMikhail Goichberg
Release date
  • 7 October 1968 (1968-10-07)
Running time
142 min
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Secret Agent's Blunder (Russian: Ошибка резидента, romanized: Oshibka rezidenta), also translated as Resident's Mistake, is a 1968 (or 1966?) Soviet spy film directed by Venyamin Dorman.

It is the first of four films based around the same character, the spy Mikhail Tulyev, played by Georgy Zhzhyonov. The sequel, Secret Agent's Destiny (or Resident's Way) was released in 1970, with Resident Return (Resident Is Back) in 1982 and End of the Resident Project in 1986.