Date and time: Monday 17 to Thursday 20 April
Venue: Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road
The 2017 Spy Week film programme concentrates on adaptations of John le Carré’s novels and ranges from the obscure to the more well known, from The Looking Glass War and A Murder of Quality to The Tailor of Panama and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
The Looking Glass War (Frank Pierson, 1970)Date and time: Monday 17 April, 5.55pm
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A Murder of Quality (Gavin Millar, 1991)Date and time: Tuesday 18 April, 8.40pm
At the request of a wartime colleague a British Intelligence officer investigates the murder of a woman at an all-boys school, and in the course of his investigation discovers that murder is not all that Carne School has to hide. |
The Tailor of Panama (John Boorman, 2001)Date and time: Wednesday 19 April, 8.40pm
A tailor living in Panama is reluctantly recruited to feed information on the elite of Panama City to a British spy. |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Thomas Alfredson, 2011)Date and time: Thursday 20 April, 5.45pm
During the Cold War a British Intelligence officer is forced from retirement in order to hunt down a Soviet double-agent within MI6. |
The Looking Glass War follows a Polish defector who is recruited by a British spy to infiltrate East Germany.
