Storyline

Leo Cauffield, chief of British counterespionage, fails by a whisker to arrest two fellow Cambridge-graduated spies who just manage to defect to Moscow, resigns and becomes a journalist. In Beirut, home of his Islam-converted father, Leo seduces Sally Tyler to divorce her husband for him. Their happiness with children from both marriages is cut short a few years later, when Leo suddenly disappears; Sally learns soon he's suspected of having defected to Moscow too, which she refuses to believe, but will be forced to while Western secret services want Leo back or dead.—KGF Vissers

Plot Keywords

flashback, beirut lebanon, cold war, kgb, undercover agent, war correspondent, double agent, englishman abroad, treason, father son relationship, spy, interrogation, husband wife reunion, husband wife relationship, hospital, london england, prank, communism, dysfunctional marriage, illness

Short Review

Kanievska's aesthetically parched film doesn't illuminate the communist paranoia of the era, but provides Sharon Stone with a handy reel of countless Oscar clips.

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