Smiley's People

Directed By:
Simon Langton

Cast:
Alec Guinness .... George Smiley
Eileen Atkins .... Madame Ostrakova
Bernard Hepton .... Toby Esterhase
Michael Byrne .... Peter Guillam
Barry Foster .... Saul Enderby
Michael Lonsdale .... Anton Grigoriov
Anthony Bate .... Oliver Lacon
Bill Paterson .... Lauder Strickland
Beryl Reid .... Connie Sachs
Mario Adorf .... Claus Kretschmar
Patrick Stewart .... Karla

Released: 1982

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.