Red Joan

Unrated

4/13/20191h 41m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ To change the world, she betrayed her country ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

Trevor Nunn

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

london, england
based on novel or book
atomic bomb
cold war
world war ii
soviet union
based on true story
cambridge
co-workers relationship
older man younger woman relationship
female spy
british secret service
physics professor
1940s
1930s
communist espionage
mother son relationship
2000s

Cast

Judi Dench

~ as ~

Joan Elizabeth Stanley

Sophie Cookson

~ as ~

Young Joan Elizabeth Stanley

Tom Hughes

~ as ~

Leo Galich

Tereza Srbova

~ as ~

Sonya Galich

Stephen Campbell Moore

~ as ~

Max

Ben Miles

~ as ~

Nick

Nina Sosanya

~ as ~

Ms. Hart

Laurence Spellman

~ as ~

Mr Adams

Nicola Sloane

~ as ~

Joan's Neighbor

Freddie Gaminara

~ as ~

William

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
6
It may well be inspired by real events but that doesn't stop it flowing like glue most of the time. Dame Judi Dench leads a workmanlike cast with Sophie Cookson playing her younger self; Tom Hughes and Stephen Campbell Moore in the story of a suburban housewife with a treacherous secret past. Sir Trevor Nunn doesn't manage to inject any sort of pace into this and as such it just ends up being another star vehicle for the star who features sparingly. Watchable, if only because it does give you some indications as to how people who felt they were doing the "right thing" in the sixties were easy pickings for the KGB recruiters; but otherwise this film is a little empty.