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Traitor( 1971)

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Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse

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      John Le Mesurier

      Adrian Harris

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      Jack Hedley

      James

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      Diana Fairfax

      Lady Emma

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      Jon Laurimore

      Thomas

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      Lyndon Brook

      Sir Arthur Harris

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      Richard Marner

      Michaelov

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      Terence Bayler

      Duty Clerk

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Nov 17 2024
    Acclaimed playwright Dennis Potter's own thinly veiled political opinions are never far from the centre of this potently portrayed depiction of a former spy giving an interview to some journalists from the relative safety of his new Moscow home many years after his defection. "Harris" (John Le Mesurier) is a sorry state of a man, drinking heavily and living the life of a recluse embittered by his memories of childhood. His was a privileged upbringing in the upper echelons of a British society that saw him steadily come to resent the class that reared and nurtured him. He was ripe for conversion...

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    Released

    Original Language

    English

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