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TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

By Tomas ALFREDSON

Thriller - Completed 2011

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Thriller
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 25 - 50 M$
- Duration
- 127 mn
- Director(s)
- Tomas ALFREDSON
- Writer(s)
- Bridget O'CONNOR, John LE CARRÉ, Peter STRAUGHAN
- Cast
- Benedict CUMBERBATCH, Ciaran HINDS, Colin FIRTH, Gary OLDMAN, John HURT, Mark STRONG, Toby JONES, Tom HARDY
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-E462-0000-S-0000-0000-R
- EIDR
- 10.5240/AAA5-C5C3-3BAB-28AF-5B8E-G
- Producer(s)
- Eric FELLNER, Robyn SLOVO, Tim BEVAN
- Synopsis
- In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control, resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian agent - a mole - and the Hungary operation was an attempt to identify which of them it was. Smiley had been forced into retirement by the departure of Control, but is asked by a senior government figure to investigate a story told to him by a rogue agent, Ricky Tarr, that there was a mole. Smiley considers that the failure of the Hungary operation and the continuing success of Operation Witchcraft (an apparent source of significant Soviet intelligence) confirms this, and takes up the task of finding him. Through the efforts of Peter Guillam, Smiley obtains information that eventually leads him to Jim Prideaux, the agent at the heart of the Hungary fiasco...