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Traitor (1971)
Directed by Alan Bridges
Drama, TV Movie · 59m
Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse
Cast
John Le Mesurier
Jack Hedley
Diana Fairfax
Lyndon Brook
Richard Marner
Terence Bayler
Crew
- Director
- Alan Bridges
- Writer
- Dennis Potter
- Editor
- Peter Coulson
- Producer
- Graeme MacDonald
Details
- Release date
- 1971-10-14
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC