The two protagonists, NKVD officers Dorin and Oktyabrsky, are hunting a German Abwehr spy in Moscow.

It is implied that Dorin is a distant relative of Erast Fandorin, the most popular character of Akunin's books.

In the tango scene, during a pause, the hero of Fyodor Bondarchuk clicks his orchestra loudly with his fingers.

This is an extraordinary result, commented on the information of Eleanor Pomegranate, representing Loskino in Los Angeles.From the review of the film The Spy in the newspaper Gazeta.Ru:[7] The Spy is the first successful adaptation of Boris Akunin's prose, placed in the only comic book space suitable for her.From the review of the film The Spy in the newspaper Trud:[8] Alexei Andrianov's fantasy turned out to be ironic, rich, full of chic and funny episodes.

Where, for example, there is a wonderful Oktyabrsky tango with a movie star Lyubov Serova (Ekaterina Melnik) who was beaten off by him in a restaurant for unsympathetic youths - and in this scene the exquisitely self-righteous hero Bondarchuk evokes about the same feelings as the imperial Moscow invented by Andrianov.