A KGB defector walks into a room. Nobody trusts him. Not even you.
This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1962.
Acting
Tommy Lee Jones simmers with institutional rage.
Direction
Mick Jackson's BBC roots show—tight, claustrophobic, mean.
Writing
True story so wild it barely needs dramatizing.
Director
Mick Jackson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real James Angleton was so consumed by mole hunts he accused literally everyone, including himself probably.
Made for TV in 1986—right when Gorbachev's reforms made Cold War nostalgia suddenly urgent.
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