Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

(2011)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 3,000 votes

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Year: 2011

Runtime: 127 мин

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Director: Томас Альфредсон

Cast: Гэри Олдман, Колин Ферт, Том Харди, Джон Хёрт, Тоби Джонс, Марк Стронг, Бенедикт Камбербэтч, Киаран Хайндс, Давид Денсик, Кэти Бёрк

Plot

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control (Sir John Hurt), 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 one it was. George Smiley (Gary Oldman) had been forced into retirement by Control's departure, but is asked by a senior government figure to investigate a story told to him by rogue Agent Ricky Tarr (Tom Hardy), 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.