Smiley's People

United Kingdom

1982

360 Min

Color

1.33:1

English

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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SCR John Hopkins, John Le Carré

CAST Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Vladek Sheybal, Andy Bradford, Bernard Hepton, Michael Byrne, Anthony Bate, Tusse Silberg, Germaine Delbat, Mario Adorf, Curd Jürgens, Michael Lonsdale, Beryl Reid, Dudley Sutton, Michael Elphick, Ingrid Pitt, Barry Foster, Maureen Lipman, Siân Phillips, Michael Gough, Alan Rickman

ED Clare Douglas, Chris Wimble

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. Smiley continues to put together the pieces a step ahead or a step behind the Russian killers. –IMDb

Director

Simon Langton

Simon Langton (born 5 November 1941 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire) is a television director and producer. He is the son of David Langton, the actor who played Richard Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs.

After he had directed a number of TV drama series and serials during the 1970s, his 1982 dramatisation of the John le Carré novel Smiley’s People was nominated for both a BAFTA award in the UK, and an Emmy Award in the USA. He later won a BAFTA award for the 1989 series Mother Love, starring Diana Rigg.

He is perhaps best known for directing the adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in 1995, for which he was also nominated for a BAFTA.

He continues to direct for British TV drama, having lately directed a number of episodes of Rosemary and Thyme and Midsomer Murders. —Wikipedia