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Year: 2011
Rating: - ()
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Country: | UK
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Release Date: (USA) See more »
Taglines: The enemy is within. See more »
Writers: John le Carré (novel), Peter Straughan (screenplay), and 1 more credit »
Movie 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. Through the efforts of Peter Guillam, Smiley obtains information that eventually leads him to Jim Prideaux, the agent at the heart of the Hungary fiasco...
Cast:
Gary Oldman
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George Smiley
Colin Firth
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Bill Haydon
Tom Hardy
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Ricki Tarr
John Hurt
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Control
Toby Jones
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Percy Alleline
Mark Strong
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Jim Prideaux
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Peter Guillam
Ciarán Hinds
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Roy Bland
David Dencik
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Toby Esterhase
Philip Martin Brown
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Tufty Thesinger
Kathy Burke
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Connie Sachs
Laura Carmichael
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Sal
Imre Csuja
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Oleg Dzhabrailov
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Sergei
Amanda Fairbank-Hynes
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Belinda
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Color: Color
Filming Locations: Budapest, Hungary
Official Site(s): Official site |
Trivia:
Tomas Alfredson had John le Carré write part of the dialogue for the Circus conference: "When we rehearsed it, it felt as if Bill Haydon should say something, but what would he say? Well, why not call John le Carré and see if he's in? And we called him and we described the situation. He thought for 15 seconds and he said, grab a pen, here it is! It was a fantastic moment." Colin Firth jokingly suggested a velvet cushion for the paper on which the line was written.
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Anachronisms:
In one of the flashbacks to the Christmas party, presumably before Control resigns in 1973, a "Lenin Santa" has everyone sing along to a recording of the Soviet National Anthem. The version that is played is the 1977 version - the original 1944 words fell out of favor after Stalin's death in 1953 and the anthem was played without words until the new version in 1977.
Quotes:
Control:
I know that Moscow has planted a mole, and I know it is one of five men.
[starts placing out chess pieces with photos on them]
Control:
Allenine: Tinker. Haydon: Tailor. Bland: Soldier. We leave out "Sailor", too much like "Tailor". Esterhase: Poorman.
Jim Prideaux:
And the fifth?
Control:
Smiley.
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