Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn’t want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for. Smiley continues to put together the pieces a step ahead or a step behind the Russian killers
Length 360 minutes
Michael Byrne | Michael Lonsdale | Michael Gough | Barry Foster | Mario Adorf | Curd Jürgens | Alec Guinness | Eileen Atkins | Germaine Delbat | Vladek Sheybal | Beryl Reid | Tusse Silberg | Bernard Hepton | Ingrid Pitt | Bill Paterson | Anthony Bate | Andy Bradford