The Looking Glass War
– From the John le Carre novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to veri..
From the John le Carre novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.
08 Feb 1970
English, German
Frank Pierson
John le Carré (based on the book by), John le Carré (novel), Frank Pierson (written for the screen by)
Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Paul Rogers
During the Cold War, the British Intelligence receives a blurred photograph from East Germany taken from Hamburg and Director LeClerc believes they are missiles. Their agent, Taylor King, who receives a film which might clarify the detail from a pilot in Finland, is found dead on the road, and the police believe he was accidentally killed in a hit-and-run. LeClerc meets the Polish defector Fred Leiser, who jumped overboard from a ship expecting to have asylum and stay with his British girlfriend who is pregnant, and decides to recruit him to cross the border and spy on the Eat German facility to check on the missiles. In return, he would have salary, insurance and political asylum. Leiser is trained by the agent and family man John Avery,and soon he finds his girlfriend has had ended the pregnancy. When Leiser crosses the border, he meets up with Anna, a local, and they stay together in the beginning of a dangerous journey where he is just a pawn in a war game.