Enigma is a 1982 Anglo-American thriller film directed by Jeannot Szwarc[3] and starring Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey, and Kevin McNally.

Based on Michael Barak's novel Enigma Sacrifice, the film centers on a CIA agent who tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence in order to stop a murderous plot.

[4]East German dissident Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen), living in Paris, hosts a radio program aimed at Iron Curtain countries.

As directed by Jeannot Szwarc, best known for Jaws 2 and Somewhere in Time, this is the spy film at its most absurdly hard-boiled and at its most icily perfunctory.

It is punctuated by crisp titles (indicating the date of each scene), played very close to the vest and riddled with false alarms ..."[6] Film historian and critic Leonard Maltin in Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2013 (2012) noted a "fine cast does its best with so-so material".