the spy and the traitor film

Healy is in the pat of the German Secret Service and his wife, Freyda, constantly reproaches him for treachery to his country. With Pierfrancesco Favino, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fausto Russo Alesi, Maria Fernanda Cândido. 'The best true spy story I have ever read' - John le Carré Ben Macintyre's new book, The Spy and the Traitor, is a fascinating account of espionage during the heart of the Cold War. Directed by Susanna White.

The Spy and the Traitor review – a gripping tale of escape from the USSR Ben Macintyre tells the story of MI6 agent Oleg Gordievsky’s rescue from Moscow in 1985 with elegance and wit To order a copy for £18.49 go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Gordievsky helped bring about the demise of the Soviet Union, and The Spy and the Traitor details his career and the story of how a CIA agent was almost his downfall. It should fit into the spy/conspiracy thriller genre but it doesn't; there are few set piece action sequences and it doesn't build to an all-loose-end-tidied-up explosive climax. It's an unusual film, this one, and difficult to categorise. A couple finds themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect, and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust. With Carlos Acosta, Radivoje Bukvic, Stellan Skarsgård, Mariya Fomina. The Spy and the Traitor is the true tale of Oleg Gordievsky, a high-level KGB agent, who worked as a double agent for Great Britain and MI6. Directed by Walter Summers. Ted Healey, a British man, is employed in a factory which makes anti-submarine patrol boats fitted with a secret torpedo device. With Bruce Cabot, Marta Labarr, Tamara Desni, Romilly Lunge. “The Spy and the Traitor [is] a fast-paced and fascinating biography of Russian-spy-turned-British-asset Oleg Gordievsky… It’s nonfiction, but it reads like the best of thrillers… The toll spying takes on Gordievsky’s personal life is enthralling, and the details of how deep the effects of one KGB agent’s deception can go are, in these days of Russian election meddling, quite frightening.”

The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s. The Spy and the Traitor, review: the true story of the ultimate Cold War double-agent The Spy and the Traitor is the true tale of Oleg Gordievsky, a high-level KGB agent, who worked as a double agent for Great Britain and MI6. Directed by Marco Bellocchio. • The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre is published by Penguin (£20).

Gordievsky helped bring about the demise of the Soviet Union, and The Spy and the Traitor details his career and the story of how a CIA agent was almost his downfall.