Cambridge Spies (2003)

Directors

Tim Fywell

Cast

Toby Stephens, Samuel West, Tom Hollander, Stuart Laing, Rupert Penry-Jones, Patrick Kennedy, Darrell D'Silva, Anna-Louise Plowman, John Light, Imelda Staunton

The story

The series is set from 1934 to 1951 and follows the lives of the best-known quartet of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and Donald Maclean, who whilst studying at the University of Cambridge are courted by Soviet agents and recruited into a world of covert intelligence and espionage. Fuelled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice, a talent for lying and a hatred for fascism, the four take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Across almost twenty years of spying and treachery, the four are bound by their beliefs, the secrets they know about one another, and the…

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