
Marta takes that information over to Maxim Volontov (Douglas Hodge), their superior, which gets Marta skinned and gutted in the bathroom for Dominika to find. Dominika reveals to Marta that she was there when Dimitri Ustinov was killed. Nate has convinced Dominika to become a double agent and work with the CIA. She is placed in a rooming flat with Marta (Thekla Reuten) who also went to Sparrow school. She is to find out the name of his Russian contact. The target is an American CIA operative, Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton). Dominika is removed earlier than expected to carry out a mission under her uncle and General Vladimir Korchnoi (Jeremy Irons). Dominika is put through various lessons and situations under the Matron's (Charlotte Rampling) tutelage. Dominika is then placed into Sparrow school as the alternative is death as a witness to the murder. Her target is Dimitri Ustinov (Kristof Konrad) who rapes her but during the act a stranger (later revealed to be Simyonov (Sergej Onopko) strangles Dimitri to death. Dominika's uncle, Ivan Egorova (Matthias Schoenaerts), suggests that she work for him in the Russian Intelligence as an assassin as the Bolshoi won't pay for her mother's medical bills much longer.


After the lead male ballet dancer falls on and breaks Dominika's leg during a performance, her career is over. The company takes care of her and her ailing mother, Nina (Joely Richardson). KGF Vissersĭominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is a lead ballerina in the Bolshoi Company for Russia. After she bitterly turns on Vanya, a game-changing surprise topples all.

Her mark is CIA agent Nate Nash, who erroneously betrayed his mole, but with whom she develops a romantic relationship of trust, while Vanya's henchman Matorin remains around for the bloody work. Headstrong she shows potential pleasing SVR general Korchnoi enough to overturn the school commander's negative reports and assign her to the field. After a single job, seducing an oligarch, actually meant as a test, she is made to join the Red Sparrow state school for sexual seducers, mostly recruited from the military. After taking bloody revenge, she is blackmailed with the loss of all Bolsoi privileges, notably expensive private medical care for her terminal mother. Deputy director of the Russian secret service SVR Vanya Egorov eagerly recruits his niece Dominika Egorova when her career as Bolshoi star ballerina is crushed by a fall, which he proves the work of a rival who seduced the male lead to drop her causing her leg to break irreparably.
