Alec Guinness as George Smiley, with Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate, Bernard Hepton, Michael Lonsdale, Beryl Reid, Patrick Stewart, and Bill Paterson. Based on the novel by John Le Carré ; sequel to his Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy. Produced by BBC television in 1994. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. DVD special features: digitally remastered presentation ; interview with John Le Carré ; production notes ; cast filmographies ; Le Carré biography and booklist ; insert with glossary of characters and terms.
The bespectacled spymaster is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus'--and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably, towards a final showdown with his old adversary, Karla of Moscow Centre.
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