Tinker, Tailor,Soldier, Spy is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carré’s classic bestselling novel. Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) directs from a screenplay adaptation by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan. The time is 1973. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries’ espionage efforts. There is a gnawing fear that the Circus has long been compromised by a double agent, or mole, working for the Soviets. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a career spy with razor-sharp senses,tries to track the mole. Even before the startling truth is revealed, the emotional and physical tolls on the players enmeshed in the deadly international spy game will escalate
