Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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Category: Thriller

Year: 2011

Rating: - ()

Director: Tomas Alfredson

Country: | UK

Runtime:127 min

Release Date: 9 December 2011 (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 - George Smiley
Colin Firth - Bill Haydon
Tom Hardy - Ricki Tarr
John Hurt - Control
Toby Jones - Percy Alleline
Mark Strong - Jim Prideaux
Benedict Cumberbatch - Peter Guillam
Ciarán Hinds - Roy Bland
David Dencik - Toby Esterhase
Philip Martin Brown - Tufty Thesinger
Kathy Burke - Connie Sachs
Laura Carmichael - Sal
Imre Csuja -
Oleg Dzhabrailov - Sergei
Amanda Fairbank-Hynes - Belinda
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Sound Mix: DTS

Color: Color

Filming Locations: Budapest, Hungary

Official Site(s): Official site |

Trivia:
This is Tomas Alfredson's first English film.

Goofs:
Factual errors: When a phone call is made from a public phone box, the money is inserted first. This is incorrect, as in those days the money was only inserted after the party you were calling answered.