Original title: Provokator (a.k.a. V pavutyni)
Copyright: VUFKU, State Agency of Ukraine for Cinematography, 2012.
Format: feature narrative, revolutionary drama.
Carrier: DVD and HD copy on hard-drive.
Color: black and white.
Length: 77 min.
Original language: silent with Russian intertitles.
Subtitles: no

Film crew
Director: Viktor Turin
Script writer: Oles Dosvitniy, based on his story "There Were Three of Us"
Cinematographer: Mykhailo Belsky
Art design: Abram Honcharsky
Assistant directors: H. Zosimov, A. Levodarova, S. Skriabin
Editor: D. V. Volzhyna
Produced by the VUFKU Film Factory, Yalta.

Film cast:
Anna Sten (maiden name Anna Fesak) as Lipa Khromova
L. A. Lileyeva as Nina Bakhmetieva
Mykola Kutuzov as Viktor Borovsky, agent provocateur
A. A. Dodonova as ballerina Lidia Ziger, Viktor's fiancée
N. V. Panov as colonel Vakhmin
H. F. Zosymov as Zubenko
as well as Volodymyr Kryher, Mykola Panov, Karl Tomsky, N. Tayirova, L. Danylov, A. Ahramova.

Synopsis 
This tense and action-packed revolutionary drama takes place in Ukraine in the 1910s. The local university is rife with dissent. Tsarist political police "the okhranka" are desperate to recruit informers from the student milieu in order to stay ahead of events. They plant a subversive leaflet in a textbook of Lipa Khromova, an unsuspecting female student, in an attempt to blackmail her into collaborating with them. She refuses. Yet her fellow student, Viktor Borovsky, is not quite so strong. He is thrown into prison and his romantic fascination with underground revolutionary activity quickly gives way to self-preservation, even if at the cost of betraying his comrades. He becomes an informant. The revolutionary cell suffers one defeat after another; its ranks decimated by the police, and its members incarcerated. An agent provocateur is clearly in their midst. Viktor Borovsky though is above any suspicion. Now a respected and effective lawyer he proves exceptionally helpful to the revolutionaries. The tension reaches a breaking point with the impending visit to the city of a government minister. Borovsky is faced with an impossible dilemma to prevent the assassination of the minister by the revolutionaries without revealing himself.
The film is exceptionally well preserved. The legendary Anna Sten is at her best in the role of Olimpia (Lipa) Khromova. Her acting in this film still remains largely outside the purview of film historians since "Agent Provocateur" is still virtually unknown both in and outside Ukraine.
The HD film copy recently acquired by the Ukrainian Film Club was restored by the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture in 2012.