Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom, France
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
- london
- england
- budapest
- hungary
- espionage
- spy
- cold war
- 1970s
- traitor
- kgb
- secret agent
- mi6
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Toby Jones — Percy Alleline
- Mark Strong — Jim Prideaux
- Benedict Cumberbatch — Peter Guillam
- Ciarán Hinds — Roy Bland
- David Dencik — Toby Esterhase
- Kathy Burke — Connie Sachs
- Stephen Graham — Jerry Westerby
- Simon McBurney — Oliver Lacon
- Svetlana Khodchenkova — Irina
- Roger Lloyd Pack — Mendel
- Konstantin Khabenskiy — Polyakov
- Directed
- Tomas Alfredson
- Written
- Peter Straughan, Bridget O'Connor
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 2,971 ratings
- Studio
- StudioCanal, Working Title Films, Karla Films, Paradis Films, Kinowelt
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
