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14/10/1971 Drama, TV Movie 0h 59m
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Overview

Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse

  1. Dennis Potter

    Writer

  2. Alan Bridges

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. John Le Mesurier

    Adrian Harris

  2. Jack Hedley

    James

  3. Diana Fairfax

    Lady Emma

  4. Jon Laurimore

    Thomas

  5. Lyndon Brook

    Sir Arthur Harris

  6. Richard Marner

    Michaelov

  7. Terence Bayler

    Duty Clerk

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-11-17
Acclaimed playwright Dennis Potter's own thinly veiled political opinions are never far from the centre of this potently portrayed depiction of a former spy giving an interview to some journalists from the relative safety of his new Moscow home many years after his defection. "Harris" (John Le Mesurier) is a sorry state of a man, drinking heavily and living the life of a recluse embittered by his memories of childhood. His was a privileged upbringing in the upper echelons of a British society that saw him steadily come to resent the class that reared and nurtured him. He was ripe for conversio...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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