Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Judi Dench | ... | Joan | |
Nina Sosanya | ... | Ms Hart | |
Laurence Spellman | ... | Mr. Adams | |
Nicola Sloane | ... | Joan's Neighbour | |
Sophie Cookson | ... | Young Joan | |
Tereza Srbova | ... | Sonya | |
Freddie Gaminara | ... | William | |
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Raj Swamy | ... | Kharak |
Tom Hughes | ... | Leo | |
Adrian Wheeler | ... | Heckler | |
Ben Miles | ... | Nick | |
Lulu Meissner | ... | Waitress | |
Phill Langhorne | ... | Uniformed Policeman | |
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Mike Sykes | ... | Security Guard |
Stephen Campbell Moore | ... | Max |
English-born Joan Stanley (Dame Judi Dench), a Soviet and Communist Party sympathizer, becomes employed as a British government civil servant, and gets recruited by the K.G.B. in the mid 1930s. She successfully transfers nuclear bomb secrets to Soviet Russia, which enables them to keep up with the west in the development of atomic weapons, and remains undetected as a spy for over a half a century. Written by Unknownian
This could have easily be a big + spy story. One of those stories that survive the times because the writers dig behind the veils of historic facts, and make essential values of human existance see the light of day. That value here is that one human can break through the simplicfied truths of time-bound consciousness, the illusions of wrong and right, dares to think his own moral mind and make a decision that serves humanity on a deeper level of evolution. It shows as a premise that is strongly tied to the story but not convincingly develloped.
What is left is a skilled and entertaining movie, not a timeless one.