A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...
Acting
Caine's simmering everyman rage, perfectly cast
Direction
Langton's BBC pedigree: restraint as weapon
Writing
Trevor Preston's adaptation: quiet conversations, loud implications
Director
Simon Langton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as 'The Fourth Protocol,' part of a brief British spy revival that preferred kitchen-sink dread to Bond glamour.
John le Carré apparently disliked this adaptation of his source novel—perhaps because it makes the bureaucracy's cruelty almost too explicit.
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