UK,
1996, 95 min
Directed by:
Christopher HamptonScreenplay:
Christopher HamptonCinematography:
Denis LenoirComposer:
Philip GlassCast:
Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Jim Broadbent, Robin Williams, Christian Bale, Eddie Izzard, Peter Vaughan, Julian Wadham (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
The life of an undercover Russian agent, posing as a quiet shopkeeper in London in order to infiltrate a ring of anarchists, is thrown into turmoil when his employers order him to plant a bomb at the Greenwich Observatory. (official distributor synopsis)
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