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((Short description|Fictional Character and James Bond villain))
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((Infobox character
| name = Rosa Klebb
| image = Rosa Klebb by Lotte Lenya.jpg
| caption = Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb
| series = [[James Bond]]
| first = ''[[From Russia, with Love (novel)|From Russia, with Love]]'' (1957)
| last = <!-- Last appearance to date -->
| creator = [[Ian Fleming]]
| portrayer = [[Lotte Lenya]]
| gender = Female
| affiliation = ((Plainlist|
*SMERSH (novel)
*Ex-SMERSH, defects to [[SPECTRE]] (film)
*[[KGB]]/[[SPECTRE|OCTOPUS]] (video games)
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| data21 = [[List of James Bond villains|Villain]]
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'''[[Colonel]] Rosa Klebb''' is a fictional character, the main [[antagonist]] in the [[James Bond]] [[From Russia, with Love (novel)|1957 novel]] and [[From Russia with Love (film)|1963 film ''From Russia with Love'']], in which she is played by [[Lotte Lenya]]. She was a Soviet [[Counterintelligence|counter-intelligence]] operative until being  discharged and joining SPECTRE.

Her name is a pun on the popular [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] phrase for [[women's rights]], ''khleb i rozy'' (Cyrillic: хлеб и розы), which in turn was a direct Russian translation of the internationally used [[labour union]] slogan "[[bread and roses]]".<ref name="times">((cite news|last=Plant|first=Brendan|date=1 April 2008|title=Top 10 Bond villains|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London, England|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/specials/for_your_eyes_only/article3660946.ece|access-date=3 April 2008))</ref>

==Novel biography==
Colonel Klebb is a high-ranking member of the feared [[Russia]]n [[counter-intelligence]] agency SMERSH, where she serves as the supervisor of Department II (operations and executions). It is strongly implied in the novel that she is a [[lesbian]]; [[Ian Fleming]] believed the description of Klebb's sexual orientation allowed the reader to understand how she fits into the plot. She has a reputation for overseeing the interrogations of enemy agents in which, after [[torturing]] the target, she speaks to them in a warm and motherly tone to extract information. She started her career as an [[State Political Directorate|OGPU]] agent placed inside [[Workers' Party of Marxist Unification|POUM]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. Her chief was [[Andreu Nin i Perez]], whose mistress she supposedly was. It was later rumoured that it was she who killed him. She is 5&nbsp;ft 4 inches (163&nbsp;cm) tall and described as unattractive. She is in her late 40s.

Klebb is assigned by SMERSH leader General Grubozaboyschikov to spearhead an operation to get revenge on James Bond for his involvement in the deaths of three SMERSH operatives, [[Le Chiffre]], [[Mister Big (James Bond)|Mr. Big]] and [[Hugo Drax]]. Teaming with Tov Kronsteen and [[Red Grant]], Klebb sets a trap for Bond, enlisting a [[cipher]] clerk, [[Tatiana Romanova]], to pretend to defect, claiming to fall in love with Bond. Once Bond takes the bait, Grant intends to kill him. This plan backfires, however, when Bond foils Grant's attempt to kill him, and with information given to him by the now deceased Grant, Bond heads to Paris to confront Klebb.

Bond tracks Klebb to the hotel in Paris where she was to rendezvous with Grant at the conclusion of his mission. He finds her there dressed as a wealthy widow. After failing to kill him with a gun hidden in a telephone, she successfully poisons him by means of a [[fugu]] toxin-laced blade hidden in her shoe; she is then captured by Bond's friend [[René Mathis]], of the [[Deuxième Bureau]]. The novel ends when Bond collapses to the floor; Fleming had intended to end the series at that point with Bond's death. In the next novel, ''[[Dr. No (novel)|Dr. No]]'', [[M (James Bond)|M]] reveals that Bond survived as a result of Mathis' timely intervention. He mentions that Klebb is dead, without providing any details.

==Film biography==
[[File:Rosa Klebb's deadly weapon.jpg|thumb|Rosa Klebb's [[signature weapon]]]]

In the film, Klebb is depicted as the former SMERSH head who has defected to become a member of [[SPECTRE]] ([[Blofeld]] refers to her as "No. 3"). She uses Tev Kronsteen's ([[Vladek Sheybal]]) plans to obtain the Lektor, a decoding device that is of high value to MI6, and kill James Bond ([[Sean Connery]]). She manipulates [[Tatiana Romanova]] ([[Daniela Bianchi]]) into helping Bond steal the Lektor, and then sends Red Grant ([[Robert Shaw (actor)|Robert Shaw]]) to kill Bond and recover it. After Bond kills Grant and escapes to Venice with the Lektor, Blofeld confronts both Klebb and Kronsteen over who is responsible for the failure of the mission; the latter is executed, whilst Klebb is given one last chance to get Bond and the Lektor. Posing as a hotel maid, she attempts to take the Lektor; when she is caught, she points a .25 [[Beretta 418]] pistol at Bond. Tatiana then distracts her, causing her to drop the Beretta, and Bond and Klebb fight. As in the novel, Klebb attempts to kick Bond with the poison-tipped shoe, but Bond blocks the attack with a chair. Tatiana then shoots Klebb with her own Beretta, killing her.

For the screen, Klebb's sexuality was made less obvious;<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/dec/23/baddies-in-books-rosa-klebb-the-spy-filled-with-ian-flemings-poison | title=Baddies in books: Rosa Klebb, the spy filled with Ian Fleming's poison | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=23 December 2014 ))</ref> a few hints remain throughout the film, such as her reaction to when SPECTRE henchman Morzeny ([[Walter Gotell]]) touches her arm at the SPECTRE Island training facility, and when she appraises Romanova's figure during their first meeting and touches her leg.

==Legacy==
Along with [[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)#Irma Bunt|Irma Bunt]], Rosa Klebb was an inspiration for the character of [[Frau Farbissina]] from the ''[[Austin Powers (film series)|Austin Powers]]'' series.

Rosa Klebb's shoe blade has been featured in other films. It is used by Jade Fox in ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'', Ichi in ''[[Ichi the Killer (film)|Ichi the Killer]]'', James West in ''[[Wild Wild West]]'', the [[Joker (comics)|Joker]] in ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', Oleg Vasilyevich Orlov in ''[[Salt (2010 film)|Salt]]'', and Gary "Eggsy" Unwin in ''[[Kingsman: The Secret Service]]''. It was also referenced in the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "[[Mr. and Mrs. Stewie]]" and parodied in the [[Peter Sellers]] film ''[[The Pink Panther Strikes Again]]''.

A pair of Rosa Klebb's shoes can also be seen in Q's underground headquarters in the 2002 Bond film ''[[Die Another Day]]'', along with other historic gadgets from Bond films, marking the 40th anniversary of the series. It is also included in the video for [[Madonna]]'s "[[Die Another Day (song)|Die Another Day]]", the title track of the film, in which two versions of Madonna fight and kill each other, and the "Good Madonna" uses her shoe blade to disarm the "Bad Madonna".

In the 2010 reimagining of the video game ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|GoldenEye 007]]'', the weapon that was named "Klobb" in the original game (originally named after designer Ken Lobb) has had its name changed to "Klebb". Klebb herself is also a playable character in the game's multiplayer component.

== Reception ==
Klebb was also included in a list of the top ten Bond villains by ''[[The Times]]'' in 2008.<ref name="times" />((Failed verification|date=May 2021)) Lisa Funnell described her as one of "the most dangerous female villains of the decade".<ref>((Citation|last=Funnell|first=Lisa|title=Negotiating Shifts in Feminism: The "Bad" Girls of James Bond|date=2011|url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230301979_14|work=Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture|pages=199–212|editor-last=Waters|editor-first=Melanie|place=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1057/9780230301979_14|isbn=978-0-230-30197-9|access-date=2021-05-29))</ref>

Elisabeth Ladenson wrote that she is one of "two memorable lesbians" from Fleming's Bond novels (the other being [[Pussy Galore]]). Ladenson notes that Klebb's character, a butch and unattractive design, whom Fleming's himself characterized in the novel as "the oldest and ugliest whore in the world", can be seen as "dig at Iron Curtain femininity, the sort of joke that endured until recently in digs at Eastern European female athletes". She also notes that her portrayal in the novel is more feminine than in the film. Lastly, using [[Melanie Klein]]'s [[object relations theory]], Ladenson suggests that Klebb's can be seen as the "bad mother" type of associative character.<ref>((Cite journal|last=Ladenson|first=Elisabeth|date=2001|title=Lovely Lesbians; or, Pussy Galore|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/12175|journal=GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies|volume=7|issue=3|pages=417–423|doi=10.1215/10642684-7-3-417|s2cid=144609937|issn=1527-9375))</ref>

Lauren Spungen criticized the portrayal of homosexuality in the characters of Klebb and Galore, arguing that the "battle between heterosexuality and homosexuality" is a metaphor for the battle of "good and evil". Her unwanted advances of Bond's love interest, [[Tatiana Romanova]] and other characterization make Klebb "foreign and not relatable, allowing further dehumanization".<ref>((Cite journal|last=Spungen|first=Lauren|date=2017-03-01|title=When Can Homophobia Live and Let Die?: An Examination of Sexual Deviance in the James Bond Franchise|url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/fm/2017/00000008/00000001/art00003;jsessionid=19fmve9odwrv3.x-ic-live-01|journal=Film Matters|volume=8|issue=1|pages=12–17|doi=10.1386/fm.8.1.12_1))</ref>

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