Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Directed by

Tomas Alfredson

Genre

drama film, thriller film, mystery film, spy film, detective film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, France

Runtime

2h 07m

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 2,952 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A retired spy is brought back to find a Soviet double agent inside the British secret service. He piece together clues from past intelligence operations in 1970s London.

atmosphericslow-burntensemelancholiccerebralbleakunsettlingdeliberate

What happens

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le Carré's 1974 novel. The film stars an ensemble cast including Gary Oldman as George Smiley, with Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, David Dencik and Kathy Burke. It is set in London in the early 1970s and follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service. The film was produced through the British company Working Title Films and financed by France's StudioCanal. It premiered in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. A critical and commercial success, it was the highest-grossing film at the British box office for three consecutive weeks. It won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film. The film also received three Oscar nominations: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for Oldman, Best Actor. The novel had previously been adapted into the award-winning 1979 BBC television series of the same name with Alec Guinness playing the lead role of Smiley. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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