Cambridge Spies - 2-DVD Set

Cambridge Spies - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

$42.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
234 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Tim Fywell

Written By:
Peter Moffat

Actors:
Toby Stephens ..... Kim Philby
Tom Hollander ..... Guy Burgess
Samuel West ..... Anthony Blunt
Rupert Penry-Jones ..... Donald Maclean
Anna-Louise Plowman ..... Melinda Maclean
Anthony Andrews ..... George VI
Adam Blackwood ..... Oliver Lester
Nicholas Burns ..... Rightwing Student
Nancy Crane ..... Nicole Ivanisovic
Benedict Cumberbatch ..... Edward Hand
Emma Davies ..... Mrs. Angleton
Nicholas Day ..... Lord Raveley
Lisa Dillon ..... Litzi Friedman
Darrell D'Silva ..... Henry
Peter Eyre ..... Arthur Quigley
James Fox ..... Lord Halifax
John Guerrasio ..... Gen. Walter Bedell-Smith
Garrick Hagon ..... Klaus Fuchs
Jenna Harrison ..... Miriam Block
Daniel Hart ..... Michael Frank
Colin Higgins ..... Porter
Marcel Iures ..... Otto
Simon Jones ..... Sir Michael Boale
Patrick Kennedy ..... Julian Bell
Stuart Laing ..... Jack Hewit
John Light ..... James Jesus Angleton
Leon Lissek ..... Prof. Bruno Klein
Ronald Pickup ..... Colonel Winter
Mary Jo Randle ..... Marge
David Savile ..... Father May
Imelda Staunton ..... Queen Elizabeth
Simon Woods ..... Charlie Givens

Synopsis:

At Cambridge University in 1934, four young men are courted by Soviet agents and recruited into a world of covert intelligence and espionage. Fired by youthful idealism, passionately committed to social justice and to fighting fascism, they are bonded by friendship based on shared conviction and shared sacrifice. This is the story of Blunt, Burgess, Philby and Maclean, the most notorious double agents in British history. The four became embroiled in obtaining and passing on vital information, betraying their country to fight the evils of fascism. Enigma secrets and atomic details are given to Russian contacts as the careers of the four take them to Vienna, New York, Washington and Moscow. During almost 20 years of counter-intelligence, despite their personal journeys, the four are bound by their beliefs and their secrets.

Harold 'Kim' Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, and Donald Maclean were four bright, intelligent, and ambitious young men who attended Cambridge University in the early '30s. They all seemed to have promising futures ahead of them and, indeed, all four distinguished themselves in their careers. Burgess and Maclean became respected diplomats, Philby rose to be a senior officer in British intelligence, and Blunt was a well-known art historian. But the four men shared a secret -- certain that Great Britain would fall during the Second World War, and equally convinced that Russia held the world's best and only hope of defeating the Nazi juggernaut, the students became secret agents for the KGB, the Soviet Union's intelligence force, and the former schoolmates worked together as agents for the U.S.S.R. well into the height of the Cold War -- until they were discovered in 1963. Cambridge Spies is a made-for-TV drama produced by the BBC which dramatizes the true story of these unlikely secret agents, exploring how they worked together, and what finally brought their secret lives into the spotlight. It stars Samuel West as Blunt, Toby Stephens as Philby, Tom Hollander as Burgess, and Rupert Penry-Jones as Maclean.

Cambridge Spies is a 2003 four-part BBC television drama concerning the lives of the best-known quartet of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies from 1934 to the 1951 defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean to the Soviet Union. It was written by Peter Moffat and directed by Tim Fywell.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 13 March, 2014.