Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le Carré’s 1974 novel of the same name. The film, starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley, was the highest-grossing film at the British box office for three consecutive weeks.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy thriller film directed by Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan, based on John le Carré’s 1974 novel of the same name. The film, starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley, along with Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds, David Dencik and Kathy Burke. It is set in London in the early 1970s and follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service. It premiered in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. It was the highest-grossing film at the British box office for three consecutive weeks. It won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. It also received three Oscar nominations: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for Oldman, Best Actor. The novel had previously been adapted into the award-winning 1979 BBC miniseries of thesame name with Alec Guinness playing the lead role of Smiley. It’s revealed that Prideaux is alive, now teaching at a boarding school and living in a caravan in the countryside. In a flashback, Smiley recalls an intense meeting between Circus leadership. Alleline had disclosed supposedly high-value Soviet Intelligence, but refused to reveal the source. Smiley enlists the help of Tarr’s boss Peter Guillam who is still with the Service, and retired Special Branch officer George Mendel.
In the flashback, Tarr describes an assignment in Istanbul where Soviet agent Irina wanted to exchange the identity of the mole in return for asylum. Soon after, Irina’s offer was not acted on and the mole had intercepted the message and went into hiding for his own life. The real mole had contacted Tarr for the night, claiming to have contacted the Circus for the logbook for the mole’s identity. Tarr claims to have been paid 30,000 pounds by someone in Paris, and has been paid for repeating the double agent’s words. He is then unexpectedly brought before Circus leadership, who accuse Tarr of being a traitor, and beats him for his apparent betrayal. The mole is revealed to be Jim Prideaux, who is now living in Paris and teaching in a boarding School. In 1973, the head of British intelligence, Control, sends agent Jim prideaux to Budapest to meet a prospective defector, a Hungarian Army general who has the name of a mole at theTop of British Intelligence. Prideaux realising the meeting is a trap, is shot as he tries to leave. Control and his right-hand man GeorgeSmiley are forced to retire following the botched assignment, and Control dies soon after. In an earlier version of this article, it was revealed that the CIA see the British service as a leaky ship, and approves the funds in order to repair this perception. We are happy to clarify that this is not the case.
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