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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)  link to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on IMDb  link to trailer on IMDb

Number: 1893

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IMDb Rating:
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7.1/10 (161.6K votes)

Country: France, 122 minutes

Spoken languages: English, French, Hungarian, Russian, Turkish

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Director(s): Tomas Alfredson

Storyline:
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.

Cast:

Mark Strong Jim Prideaux
John Hurt Control
Péter Kálloy Molnár Hungarian Waiter
Gary Oldman George Smiley
Toby Jones Percy Alleline

Medium: Digital Copy,

Location: Red 4TB Drive

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1