Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)

Directors

Tomas Alfredson

Cast

Mark Strong, John Hurt, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Ilona Kassai, Gary Oldman, Toby Jones, David Dencik, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Firth, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Graham, Arthur Nightingale, Simon McBurney, Tom Hardy, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Matyelok Gibbs, Jamie Thomas King, Stuart Graham, Konstantin Khabensky, Katrina Vasilieva, Linda Marlowe, Philip Martin Brown, Tomasz Kowalski, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Nick Hopper, Laura Carmichael, Michael Sarne, Christian McKay, Jean-Claude Jay, Tom Stuart

The story

In November 1973, "Control", head of British intelligence ("The Circus"), sends field agent Jim Prideaux to Budapest to meet a Hungarian general and potential defector, who has offered to identify a mole installed by Soviet spymaster Karla amongst the Circus' senior leadership. Prideaux realises the meeting is a trap, attempts to leave and is shot in the back. Control and his deputy, George Smiley, are forced to retire, and Control dies shortly after.

Genres

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