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TV series / 1982
Smiley's People
Episode directors
Simon Langton
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
The story
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
Cast
Alec GuinnessGeorge Smiley
Eileen AtkinsMadame Ostrakova
Bill PatersonLauder Strickland
Vladek SheybalOtto Leipzig
Andy BradfordFerguson
Bernard HeptonToby Esterhase
Anthony BateOliver Lacon
Michael ByrnePeter Guillam
Tusse SilbergAlexandra Ostrakova
Germaine DelbatMadame La Pierre
Ingrid PittElvira
Michael LonsdaleAnton Grigoriev
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Curd JürgensGeneral Vladimir
Mario AdorfClaus Kretzschmar
Barry FosterSaul Enderby
Michael GoughMikhel
Rosalie CrutchleyMother Felicity
Dudley SuttonOleg Kirov
Maureen LipmanStella Craven
Paul HerzbergVillem Craven
Lucy FlemingMolly Meakin
Julia McCarthyMollie McCraig
Lucinda CurtisSister Beatitude
Jacques MaurySergei
Marion GaraiLitzi Meinertzhagen
Margrit KnechtDolly Meinertzhagen
Okon Ubanga JonesMr Lamb
Michael ElphickDetective Chief Inspector
Stephen RiddleNigel Mostyn
Renny KrupinskiAttaché Kuznetsov
Harry WalkerMurgotroyd
Trevor CooperSergeant Pike
Yves PeneauDmitri
Alex JenningsPC Hall
Alan RickmanMr Brownlow
Tanya ReesBeckie Craven
Peter GuinnessHari Krishna Monk
Beryl ReidConnie Sachs
Norma WestHilary
Vass AndersonMr Carson
William Wilde'Blue Diamond' Waiter
Thessy KuhlsFrau Kretzschmar
Carl DueringWalther
Jonathan BurnEdmonds
Caroline SilholMarie-Claire Guillam
Jean ChampionMonsieur La Pierre
Marie-Hélène DastéMadame Delbarre
Georges HubertMonsieur Delbarre
Richard LeechUncle Harry
Inigo GalloFranz
Margaret HeeryMrs Tremedda
Joe PramlPaul Skordeno
Eugene LipinskiDe Silsky
Patrick StewartKarla
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