Col. Alexi Vlassov — The Serpent Character Profile

About Col. Alexi Vlassov

A high-ranking KGB official who defects to the United States. He provides Western intelligence with a list of enemy agents embedded in NATO. He successfully outsmarts a CIA lie detector test by telling a minor lie to conceal his true motives.

Col. Alexi Vlassov — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Yul Brynner

Appears in

The Serpent (1973)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (6)

• Col. Alexi Vlassov — Conflict Informant/Target — Deval (Guy Tréjan)

  Vlassov reveals Deval as a Soviet spy

• Col. Alexi Vlassov — Conflict Informant/Target — Lepke (Martin Held)

  Vlassov reveals Lepke as a Soviet spy

• Col. Alexi Vlassov — Conflict Informant/Target — Tavel (Michel Bouquet)

  Vlassov reveals Tavel as a Soviet spy

• Col. Alexi Vlassov — Conflict Informant/Target — Lucien Berthon (Philippe Noiret)

  Vlassov reveals Berthon as a Soviet spy

• Col. Alexi Vlassov — Conflict Informant/Target — Philip Boyle (Dirk Bogarde)

  Vlassov reveals Boyle as a Soviet spy

• Col. Alexi Vlassov — Professional Interrogated/Interrogator — Alan Davies (Henry Fonda)

  Vlassov is being interrogated by Davies after his defection

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