Details

Release year: 2007

Storyline

Real-life figures from the Cold War-era mix with a fictional story based on a group of C.I.A. operatives and their counterparts in the K.G.B., MI6, and the Mossad.

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Cast

Chris O'Donnell — Jack McCauliffe
Alfred Molina — Harvey Torriti, The Sorcerer
Michael Keaton — James Angleton
Rory Cochrane — Yevgeny Tsipin

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Awards

1 win & 5 nominations

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Did you know

• The footage of the entrance gate of C.I.A. Headquarters in 1975 was re-used from the film Spy Game (2001), which Tony Scott, of Scott Free Productions, directed. Perhaps as further interest, that footage is not of the C.I.A., but an abandoned telephone company entrance gate.

• This marks the second time that Tom Hollander has played one of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spies. He played Guy Burgess in the BBC miniseries, Cambridge Spies (2003).

• Cockroach Alley is the cluster of wooden "temporary" buildings on the Mall in Washington (National Mall) that housed CIA's first offices in the late 1940s. Buildings I, J, K, and L shuddered in the slightest breeze, and they smelled; officers walked cautiously over the rotting floors.