Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

"The enemy is within."

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...

Details

Format: DVD
Genre: Thriller
Rating: MA15+
Release Date: 17 05 2012
Production Year: 2011
Distributor: 127
Languages: English
Rating Advice: Strong Violence
Distributor: All Interactive Distribution
Directors: Tomas Alfredson

Actors: Mark Strong, John Hurt, Zoltan Mucsi, Peter Kalloy Molnar, Ilona Kassai, Imre Csuja, Gary Oldman, Toby Jones, David Dencik, Ciaran Hinds, Colin Firth, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Graham, Arthur Nightingale