Starring: Alec Guinness, Mario Adorf, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate, Michael Byrne, Rosalie Crutchley, Michael Elphick, Barry Foster.

Directed by: Simon Langton.

The bespectacled spymaster is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus' - and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an migr Soviet General who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably, towards a final showdown with his old adversary, Karla of Moscow Centre. Sir Alec Guinness, the definitive Smiley, brings John le Carre's greatest creation to life in this acclaimed dramatisation. Compulsive to the end.

DVD Extras: John Le Carre & John Irvin (director of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) interview footage (approx 28 mins duration).

George Smiley is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the 'Circus'

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