Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Movie 2011

Movie Information

Directed by:Tomas Alfredson

Produced by:Tim Bevan,Eric Fellner,Robyn Slovo.

Screenplay by:Bridget O'Connor,Peter Straughan

Based on:Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

Starring:Gary Oldman,Colin Firth,Tom Hardy,John Hurt,Toby Jones,Mark Strong,Benedict Cumberbatch,
Ciarán Hinds.

Music by:Alberto Iglesias

Cinematography:Hoyte van Hoytema

Editing by:Dino Jonsäter

Studio:StudioCanal,Working Title Films.

Distributed by:StudioCanal UK (UK)
StudioCanal (France)

Release Date: 5 September 2011 (2011-09-05) (Venice Film Festival)

Running Time:127 minutes

Country:United Kingdom,France

Language:English

Budget:$21 million

Box office:$22,648,621

Plot: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Control, the head of British Intelligence ("the Circus"), sends agent Jim Prideaux to Hungary to meet a Hungarian general who wishes to sell information. The operation is blown: a fleeing Prideaux is shot in the back by Soviet intelligence. Amid the international incident that follows, Control and his right-hand man George Smiley are forced into retirement.Percy Alleline becomes the new Chief of the Circus, with Bill Haydon as his deputy and Roy Bland and Toby Esterhase as close allies. They have established their status by delivering apparently high-grade Soviet intelligence material, code named "Witchcraft", about which both Control and Smiley were suspicious. Alleline shares Witchcraft material with the Americans, obtaining valuable US intelligence in exchange. Control, already ill, dies.Smiley is brought out of retirement by Oliver Lacon, the civil servant in charge of intelligence, to investigate an allegation by agent Ricki Tarr that there is a long-term mole in a senior role in British Intelligence. Smiley interviews people who left the Circus at the same time as he and Control. One is Connie Sachs, who had been sacked by Alleline for accusing Polyakov, a Soviet cultural attaché in London, of being a Soviet agent. Another is Jerry Westerby, who had been duty clerk on the night Prideaux was shot. Westerby reveals he had rung Smiley's house for instructions, but Smiley was away. Shortly afterwards, Haydon had arrived at the Circus saying he saw the news on the tickertape at his club at 1am. Smiley realises that because the tape would have been closed by 1am, Haydon must have heard the news from Smiley's wife, with whom Haydon was having an affair.