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Smiley's people.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: DAVID3296 | Umbrella EntertainmentLanguage: English Publication details: Australia : Umbrella Entertainment, 2015.Description: 2 DVD-video (351 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cmOther title:
  • John Le Carré's Smiley's people
Uniform titles:
  • Smiley's people (Television mini-series : 1982)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.45/72 23
Production credits:
  • Producer, Jonathan Powell ; director, Simon Langton.
Alec Guinness as George Smiley, with Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate, Bernard Hepton, Michael Lonsdale, Beryl Reid, Patrick Stewart, and Bill Paterson.Summary: The bespectacled spymaster is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus'--and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably, towards a final showdown with his old adversary, Karla of Moscow Centre.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item reserves
DVD Melbourne Athenaeum Library DVD SMI Available 059354
Total reserves: 0

Based on the novel by John Le Carré ; sequel to his Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy.

DVD special features: digitally remastered presentation ; interview with John Le Carré ; production notes ; cast filmographies ; Le Carré biography and booklist ; insert with glossary of characters and terms.

Producer, Jonathan Powell ; director, Simon Langton.

Alec Guinness as George Smiley, with Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate, Bernard Hepton, Michael Lonsdale, Beryl Reid, Patrick Stewart, and Bill Paterson.

Produced by BBC television in 1982.

The bespectacled spymaster is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus'--and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably, towards a final showdown with his old adversary, Karla of Moscow Centre.

Censorship classification : M.

DVD region ; ALL ; PAL.

English HOH.

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