Red Joan (2018)

Directed by

Trevor Nunn

Genre

drama film, spy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

M

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 396 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly woman is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union decades earlier. The film flashes back to her younger self as a secretary who passed nuclear secrets to the Soviets.

tensereflectivebiographicalslow-burnsomberrestrainedcharacter-drivennostalgic

What happens

Red Joan is a 2018 British spy drama film, directed by Trevor Nunn, from a screenplay by Lindsay Shapero. The film stars Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, Nina Sosanya, Tereza Srbova, and Judi Dench. The film is based on a novel of the same name written by Jennie Rooney, which was itself inspired by the life of Melita Norwood. Norwood worked at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association as a secretary and supplied the Soviet Union with nuclear secrets. The information that Norwood betrayed to the Soviets hastened the pace at which they developed nuclear bomb technology. Red Joan had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2018 and was released on 19 April 2019, by Lionsgate in the United Kingdom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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