Top billed cast

1. 

   Judi Dench

   Joan Elizabeth Stanley

2. 

   Sophie Cookson

   Young Joan Elizabeth Stanley

3. 

   Tom Hughes

   Leo Galich

4. 

   Tereza Srbova

   Sonya Galich

5. 

   Stephen Campbell Moore

   Max

6. 

   Ben Miles

   Nick

7. 

   Nina Sosanya

   Ms. Hart

8. 

   Laurence Spellman

   Mr Adams

9. 

   Nicola Sloane

   Joan's Neighbor

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-05-29

It may well be inspired by real events but that doesn't stop it flowing like glue most of the time. Dame Judi Dench leads a workmanlike cast with Sophie Cookson playing her younger self; Tom Hughes and Stephen Campbell Moore in the story of a suburban housewife with a treacherous secret past. Sir Trevor Nunn doesn't manage to inject any sort of pace into this and as such it just ends up being another star vehicle for the star who features sparingly. Watchable, if only because it does give you some indications as to how people who felt they were doing the "right thing" in the sixties were easy ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• london, england
• based on novel or book
• atomic bomb
• spy
• cold war
• world war ii
• soviet union
• based on true story
• cambridge
• co-workers relationship
• older man younger woman relationship
• female spy
• british secret service
• physics professor
• 1940s
• 1930s
• communist espionage
• mother son relationship
• 2000s