Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Category: Thriller
All Genres: Thriller
Release Year: 2011
Country: France, UK, Germany
Runtime: 127
Rating: 7.7 (5)
Languages: English, Russian, Hungarian, French
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital
Taglines:

How do you find an enemy who is hidden right before your eyes?

The secret is out.

Trust no one. Suspect everyone.

The enemy is within.

At the height of the Cold War, only a master spy could be trusted to expose one of their own.

Writing by: John le Carré – novel
Bridget O'Connor – screenplay
Peter Straughan – screenplay

Produced by: Tim Bevan – producer
Liza Chasin – executive producer
Eric Fellner – producer
Alexandra Ferguson – co-producer
Ron Halpern – executive producer
Debra Hayward – executive producer
John le Carré – executive producer
Peter Morgan – executive producer
Robyn Slovo – producer
Alex Sutherland – line producer: Turkey
Douglas Urbanski – executive producer

Cast: Mark Strong – Jim Prideaux
John Hurt – Control
Zoltán Mucsi – Magyar
Péter Kálloy Molnár – Hungarian Waiter
Ilona Kassai – Woman in Window
Imre Csuja – KGB Agent
Gary Oldman – George Smiley
Toby Jones – Percy Alleline
David Dencik – Toby Esterhase
Ciarán Hinds – Roy Bland
Colin Firth – Bill Haydon

Music: Alberto Iglesias
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Plot Outline:

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.

Plot: 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. He is then able to put together the pieces of the puzzle, which lead him to the identity of the mole and the true intent of Operation Witchcraft.