UK
Television Film
Director: John Schlesinger
Writer: Alan Bennett
Cinematographer: Nat Crosby
Composer: George Fenton
Cast: Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Denys Hawthorne, Trevor Baxter, Roger Hammond
Coral Browne (played by herself), in Moscow performing Hamlet in 1958, spends an afternoon in the decidedly grotty flat of the infamous traitor Guy Burgess (Bates, wonderful) – a member of The Cambridge Five spy ring, who had defected to the USSR in 1951 – making promises to visit his old tailor on her return to London with instructions for a new set of suits, in Bennett’s hilarious, pathos-laden, and terribly human dramatisation of an actual (decidedly bizarre) encounter. Iain.Stott
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