Red Joan

2018 · 101 min · EN · 6.6 (405 votes)

Dir. Trevor Nunn · Starring Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Tom Hughes, Tereza Srbova, Stephen Campbell Moore, Ben Miles · Music George Fenton

“To change the world, she betrayed her country”

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London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

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A slow-burn espionage thriller that feels like a quiet storm. It's a character-driven drama about the weight of secrets and the moral compromises made in the name of ideology, set against the backdrop of Cold War tensions.

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