Details

Release year: 1987

Storyline

The rise and fall of Magnus Pym and his career through intelligence. From chance meetings with people will be important to him in the future to a life in Czechoslovakia, Pym weaves his way through the complicated world of espionage.

Top credits

Cast

Ray McAnally — Rick Pym
Rüdiger Weigang — Axel
Alan Howard — Jack Brotherhood
Peter Egan — Magnus Pym

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Awards

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Did you know

• According to source novelist John le Carré, the character of Rick Pym (Ray McAnally) is heavily based upon his own father.

• This mini-series was made and released only about a year after its source novel of the same name by John le Carré was first published in 1986.

• The Wikipedia website states: "A Perfect Spy [1986] is [John] le Carré's most autobiographical book. As the author himself has admitted, a large part of the novel is a thinly disguised account of le Carré's own early life. Before he became a novelist, David Cornwell (John le Carré) was an intelligence officer for MI6, the British intelligence service, although there are no allegations that he ever betrayed his country and spied for another country like the character Magnus Pym. Like Magnus, le Carré lost his mother at an early age, was sent to an abusive prep school, studied languages at the University of Berne in Switzerland, in the 1950s worked for the Intelligence Corps of the British Army in Austria interrogating Czech defectors, and at Oxford University spied on far-left student groups for MI5."