Final Assignment is a 1980 Canadian thriller drama film, written by Marc Rosen and directed by Paul Almond.
[1] In this complex spy caper, Nicole (Geneviève Bujold) is a Canadian broadcast journalist working on assignment in the Soviet Union.
Things get complicated when in the process, she develops a romantic liaison with yoshita (Michael York), a bureaucrat in the Soviet press corps whose job is to watch her during her stay.
The film had originally been slated to be directed by Silvio Narizzano, although he left the production and Almond was brought in.
[2] Production was further complicated when the Soviet government refused Almond's request for stock film footage of Moscow and Leningrad, due to its displeasure at Canada's diplomatic response to the 1979 Soviet–Afghan War.