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Eighty Percent
of Success is
Showing Up

- Woody Allen
 

If you compromise what you're trying to do a little bit, you'll end up compromisinga little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go!

EVENTS

Westside Studios at
Marché du Film 2025 

Come visit us from  13 - 21 May 2025 

Cannes | Palais 1 booth 22.06

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PROMOTED FILM

SPY CAPITAL: VIENNA

by Boris Volodarsky

DOCUMENTARY (2024)

74 Min

Runtime

16  Winns

 at Film Festivals

It is a commonly accepted fact among professionals that Vienna, Austria, is and has long been the world capital of espionage. A team of documentary filmmakers asked internationally renowned experts to prove or disprove this claim. The results exceeded all expectations. 

EXPERTS CAST

Directed by

Boris Volodarsky

Produced by

Dennis Dewall

The experts: Dr Boris Volodarsky, Intelligence Historian and writer, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London; Gert Rene Polli, former head of the BVT, the Austrian equivalent of MI5; Professor Gerhard Mangott specializing in international Relations and Security in the post-Soviet region, General Oleg Kalugin (ret.), former head of foreign counterintelligence of the KGB's foreign intelligence arm; Christo Grozev, leading investigative journalist, 2023 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature "Navalny", and others. 

A WESTSIDE STUDIOS PRODUCTION (2024)

Budget

$250,000

80%

Festivals selection rate

"Spy Capital: Vienna" emerges as a documentary feature teeming with dramatization, exploring the clandestine corridors of espionage in Vienna, Austria - a city renowned as the world's espionage epicentre. Under the guidance of Dewall, alongside director Dr. Boris Volodarsky, an esteemed espionage expert, the documentary delves into the intricate web of international espionage with an unprecedented depth of insight. 

NEWS

Cannes Film Festival to Host World Premiere of "Spy Capital: Vienna"

Westside Studios, a rising player in the film industry, is set to exhibit at the prestigious Marché du Film in Cannes from May 14-22, 2024. Their exhibition will be located at Booth 22.06 within the iconic Palais des Festivals. A highlight of their presence will be the world premiere of their documentary, “Spy Capital: Vienna,” scheduled for May 16 at the Olympia Cinema at 8 PM.

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