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Alan Bennett's award-winning film drama based on the meeting of actress Coral Browne and British spy Guy Burgess, who walks into her dressing room when she is performing in Moscow in 1958. She is invited to lunch at Burgess's shabby apartment, where he presents her with a strange request.

Keywords:

Drama, Spy, Based-on-True-Story, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(1983) (Made for TV) (UK) (4 Star)

Cast:

Alan Bates	.... Guy Burgess
Coral Browne	.... Herself
Charles Gray	.... Claudius
Harold Innocent	.... Rosencrantz
Vernon Dobtcheff	.... Guildenstern
Czeslaw Grocholski	.... General

Supporting Cast:

Matthew Sim	.... The boy
Mark Wing-Davey	.... Hamlet
Faina Zinova	.... Hotel receptionist
Douglas Reith	.... Toby
Peter Chelsom	.... Giles
Judy Gridley	.... Tessa
Bibs Ekkel	.... Scarf man
Alexei Jawdokimov	.... Tolya
Molly Veness	.... Mrs. Burgess

Directors:

John Schlesinger

Writers:

Alan Bennett