In 1970s England the head of MI6 dispatches an agent to meet with a Hungarian general who knows the identity of a Soviet spy in the organization’s ranks. After the mission goes wrong, the undersecretary calls veteran agent George Smiley back from forced retirement to ferret out the mole.

Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson teams up once again with ace cinematographer Hoyte van Hotyema for this, his English-language debut—an adaptation of the first novel in John Le Carré’s Karla trilogy. A cross-country, Cold War spy thriller and a who’s who of the British film industry.