Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
– In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to..
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
06 Jan 2012
English, Russian, Hungarian, French, Turkish
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.
Tomas Alfredson
Bridget O'Connor (screenplay), Peter Straughan (screenplay), John le Carré (novel)
Mark Strong, John Hurt, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Kálloy Molnár
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.
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 35 wins & 93 nominations.
$20,200,000
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