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Goed gemaakte maar te lange en complexe spionagethriller over het kat-en-muis spel van de KGB en de Britse Inlichtingendienst. John Hokpins' script zou begrijpelijker zijn geweest met een basiscursus spionnen-jargon. Gebaseerd op John Trenhaile's A Man Called Kyril en in twee delen op de Amerikaanse tv verschenen.

208-minute British serial, first broadcast in 1988. It is a Cold War espionage drama, starring Ian Charleson, Edward Woodward, Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, and Richard E. Grant. The spy thriller was directed by Ian Sharp, and the screenplay was written by John Hopkins, from a 1981 novel by John Trenhaile. The fairly complex plot concerns a known Russian spy ("Kyril") sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.