Defector (Original title: The Defector) is an espionage thriller from 1966, in the tradition of films such as The Spy Who Came in from the cold.
The American scientist Prof. James Bower is during his holiday stay in East Germany by the CIA agent Adam recruited to smuggle a Russian microfilm to West Germany. It is pursued here by Peter Heinzmann, a defector (Defector), who works for the GPU. The film turns out to be worthless, but fear must Bower because of the pursuer for his life. Help he gets from Frieda Hoffmann, the nurse of his spy contact.