Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

As Vatican Radio's film critic Peter Malone writes in his review, "John Le Carrè has been around for a long time, and older filmgoers may remember popular film renditions of a number of his spy thrillers (...). He was the author of grim cold war stories which had been part of his own life and work".

Today, his celebrated "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" gets cinema treatment, honed down to a two hour running time that Le Carrè himself has given his approval to...

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