Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Overview
In 1970s England the head of MI6, Control (John Hurt), dispatches an agent (Mark Strong) ]to meet with a Hungarian general who knows the identity of a Soviet spy in the organization's ranks. However, the mission goes wrong, and the general dies before he can reveal the information. Undersecretary Oliver Lacon (Simon McBurney) ]calls veteran agent George Smiley (Gary Oldman) back from forced retirement to ferret out the mole and stop the flow of vital British secrets to the Russians.
Rating
R — Some Sexuality/Nudity, Language, Violence
Audio and movie formats
Dolby SRD, Dolby Digital
Official movie site
http://focusfeatures.com/tinker_tailor_soldier_spy
Awards
Gary Oldman — Nominated for British Academy of Film & Television Arts for Leading Actor, 2011
Gary Oldman — Nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor, 2011
Production company
Working Title Films
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy cast and crew
- Gary Oldman as George Smiley
- Kathy Burke as Connie Sachs
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Peter Guillam
- David Dencik as Toby Esterhase
- Colin Firth as Bill Haydon
- Stephen Graham as Jerry Westerby
- Tom Hardy as Ricki Tarr
- Ciarán Hinds as Roy Bland
- John Hurt as Control
- Toby Jones as Percy Alleline
- Konstantin Khabensky as Polyakov
- Svetlana Khodchenkova as Irina
- Simon McBurney as Oliver Lacon
- Mark Strong as Jim Prideaux
