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7.1/10   18 votes
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Writers:
W. Somerset Maugham (novel)
David Pirie (adaptation)
Contact:
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Release Date:
17 November 1991 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Four-part drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British intelligence during the First World War... more
User Comments:
An excellent and very different spy story more

Cast

  (Series Credited cast)
Alex Jennings ... John Ashenden

Joss Ackland ... Cumming
Ian Bannen ... R
Harriet Walter ... Giulia Lazzari
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Rene Auberjonois ... John Quincy Harrington
Christopher Baines ... Gomez
Terence Bayler ... Military Chief
Alan Bennett ... Grantly Caypor
László Borbély ... Henri
Sarah Bullen ... R's secretary
Anna Carteret ... Anna Caypor
Hilary Drake ... Baroness von Higgins
Tamás Dunai
Roger Hammond ... British MP
Susanna Hamnett ... Alexandra Leodinova
Nigel Harrison ... Detective
Thomasine Heiner
Jane Hollowood

Jason Isaacs ... Andrew Lehman
Boris Isarov ... Czech agent
Vida Jerman
Robert Lang ... Sir Timothy Semple
Nathan Lewis ... GHQ orderly
Bryan Matheson ... Irish Colonel

Elizabeth McGovern ... Aileen Somerville

Michael Mehlmann ... Paid Assassin

Alfred Molina ... Carmona
Fiona Mollison
Kenneth Owens ... Gustave Grabow
Hana Maria Pravda ... Hotel Landlady
Jon Rumney ... Doctor
Graham Seed ... British Consul
András Várkonyi
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Additional Details

Runtime:
UK:220 min (4 parts)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
An excellent and very different spy story, 18 October 2003
10/10
Author: Roger Moncrief (grafxman@indrev.com) from Jacksonville, FL

I write this after having seen all four episodes. It plays out more like four episodes of a TV series than a four part miniseries.

They are all excellent. The best episode is the very poignant final episode. They are apparently based on the writer's real life experiences as a spy during WW I.

This is not to be missed.

Roger Moncrief

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