Credits<br />Distributed by<br />20th Century Fox<br /><br />Production companies<br />TSG Entertainment<br />Chernin Entertainment<br /><br />Directed by<br />Francis Lawrence<br /> <br />Screenplay by<br />Justin Haythe<br /> <br />Based on Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews<br /> <br />Produced by<br />Peter Chernin<br />David Ready<br />Jenno Topping<br />Steven Zaillian<br /><br />Cinematography<br />Jo Willems<br /><br />Edited by<br />Alan Edward Bell<br /><br />Music by<br />James Newton Howard<br /><br />Synopsis<br />A young Russian intelligence officer is assigned to seduce a first-tour CIA agent who handles the CIA's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young officers collide in a charged atmosphere of trade-craft, deception, and inevitably forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but the lives of others as well.