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Restless (2012)

Restless poster
Directed by
Edward Hall
Genre
drama television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 2 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 55 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman discovers that her mother was a British spy in World War Two. The story follows both the mother's past as a secret agent and the daughter's present search for the truth.

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What happens

Restless is a 2012 British TV adaptation of William Boyd's espionage novel Restless (2006). Directed by Edward Hall, the film features Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling. The two parts first aired on 27 and 28 December 2012 on BBC One. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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