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- BFI identifier60953
- Date1983 (Copyright)
1983-06-10 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisAction, adventure, spy, thriller, 13th installment in the James Bond series. When fellow Secret Service agent 009 is murdered over a valuable Faberge egg, James Bond is sent to investigate. Bond follows the egg to India after it is put up for auction and bought by the wealthy prince Kamal Khan. There he meets the enigmatic and beautiful circus leader Octopussy and discovers that Khan and the maniacal Russian General Orlov plan to cripple Western Europe with a nuclear explosion and incite a world war. (Synopsis)
- Work historyLocations used in the film: UK: Black Park (Iver Heath, Bucks), Ferry Meadows (Peterborough, Cambs); National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, London); Nene Valley Railway (including Wansford Level Crossing, Wansford Railway Station) and the weir at Orton Mere (Peterborough, Cambs); Sotheby's and New Bond Street (Mayfair, London); Oakley (Bucks); Old War Office Building (Whitehall, London); RAF Lakenheath (Suffolk); RAF Northolt (Ruislip, Middlesex); RAF Oakley (Bucks); RAF Upper Heyford (Oxon); Stowe Castle (Bucks); India: Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Red Fort (Agra, Uttar Pradesh), City Palace and gardens (Udaipur, Rajasthan); Monsoon Palace and Shiv Niwas Hotel (Udaipur); Lake Palace Hotel (Jagniwas Island), Jagmandir Island and Taj Lake Palace (Lake Pichola, Udaipur); Germany: Potsdamer Platz, Spandau, Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie (Kreuzberg), Kurfürstendamm, Charlottenburg (all Berlin); USA: Hurricane Arch Bridge; Moab; Kanab (all Utah).
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Octopussy (Original)
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10.5240/DBF6-A39C-1192-859E-6ED6-GCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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