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20/09/1982 Drama, Mystery 0h 50m
77
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Overview

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.

Top billed cast

  1. Alec Guinness

    George Smiley

  2. Eileen Atkins

    Madame Ostrakova

  3. Bill Paterson

    Lauder Strickland

  4. Vladek Sheybal

    Otto Leipzig

  5. Andy Bradford

    Ferguson

  6. Bernard Hepton

    Toby Esterhase

  7. Anthony Bate

    Oliver Lacon

  8. Michael Byrne

    Peter Guillam

  9. Tusse Silberg

    Alexandra Ostrakova

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Season 1

 1982 | 6 Episodes

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-10-27
When "Madame Ostrakova" (Eileen Atkins) is accosted by a man as she tries to board a bus, we discover that she has a secret Soviet past that saw her flee, leaving her daughter in Moscow. Faced with a difficult choice, she contacts the one man who might be able to help. That's "Gen. Vladimir" (Curd Jürgens) who just happens to have some links with the once again retired "Smiley" (Sir Alec Guinness) who is drafted out of his intellectual slumbers to piece together a mystery that involves his own wife "Lady Ann" (Siân Phillips), his arch nemesis "Karla", this woman and her abandoned daughter. J...read the rest
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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
Smiley's People

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