How do you find an enemy who is hidden right before your eyes?
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
Directed byTomas Alfredson
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- September 16, 2011
- Budget
- $30,000,000
- Revenue
- $81,515,369
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Cast & crew
Gary Oldman
George Smiley
Colin Firth
Bill Haydon
Tom Hardy
Ricki Tarr
John Hurt
Control
Toby Jones
Percy Alleline
Mark Strong
Jim Prideaux
Benedict Cumberbatch
Peter Guillam
Ciarán Hinds
Roy Bland
David Dencik
Toby Esterhase
Kathy Burke
Connie Sachs
- Directed by
- Tomas Alfredson
- Written by
- Peter Straughan
Bridget O'Connor - Produced by
- Tim Bevan
Eric Fellner
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