Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 127 min

genre: thriller

theme: spy

director: Tomas Alfredson

Score: 7 / 10

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le Carré's 1974 novel of the same name. The film stars 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 supporting. 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.

Plot

In 1973 "Control", head of British intelligence ("The Circus"), sends Jim Prideaux to Budapest to meet a Hungarian general who has the name of a mole at the top of British Intelligence. Prideaux, realising the meeting is a trap, is shot as he tries to flee. Control and his right-hand man George Smiley are forced to retire, and Control dies soon after. Percy Alleline becomes the new Chief, Bill Haydon his deputy, and Roy Bland and Toby Esterhase his lieutenants. They had already begun receiving Soviet Intelligence from a secret source (Operation "Witchcraft").

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author	Bridget O'Connor Peter Straughan
award	European Film Award for Best Composer European Film Award for Best Production Designer
contentLocation	Budapest Istanbul London Paris
director	Tomas Alfredson
editor	Dino Jonsäter
genre	thriller
keywords	abduct beg british intelligence central intelligence agency cia code name control double agent duty officer force george smiley hide hungarian hungarian people\'s army id jim prideaux karla kgb meet military officer murder permanent secretary permanent undersecretary peter guillam retire ricki tarr run safe house secret intelligence service shoot soviet defector special branch station chief suspect want
musicBy	Alberto Iglesias
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay European Film Award for Best Actor European Film Award for Best Cinematographer European Film Award for Best Composer European Film Award for Best Production Designer European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film
producer	Eric Fellner Peter Morgan Robyn Slovo Tim Bevan
productionCompany	Karla Films Kinowelt Filmproduktion Paradis Films StudioCanal Working Title Films
publisher	StudioCanal
recordedAt	Blythe House Budapest Budapest-Nyugati railway station Clerkenwell Fisherman's Bastion Inglis Barracks Istanbul London Párizsi udvar Turkey Victoria and Albert Museum
theme	spy