Smiley's People (1982)

Directed by

Simon Langton

Genre

drama, mystery

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 52 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

George Smiley gets pulled back into espionage work when a former colleague is killed. He follows a trail of clues that leads him into a complex spy game with the Soviets.

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What happens

Smiley’s People is a 1982 British six-part spy drama by the BBC. Directed by Simon Langton and produced by Jonathan Powell, it is the television adaptation of the 1979 spy novel Smiley's People by John le Carré, and a sequel to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (missing out the second book in the trilogy, The Honourable Schoolboy, which was not filmed for cost reasons). Starring Alec Guinness, Michael Byrne, Anthony Bate and Bernard Hepton, it was first shown in the United Kingdom from 20 September to 25 October 1982, and in the United States beginning on 25 October 1982. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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