Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.

Cast

Alec Guinness

George Smiley

Eileen Atkins

Madame Ostrakova

Bill Paterson

Lauder Strickland

Vladek Sheybal

Otto Leipzig

Andy Bradford

Ferguson

Bernard Hepton

Toby Esterhase

Anthony Bate

Oliver Lacon

Michael Byrne

Peter Guillam

Tusse Silberg

Alexandra Ostrakova

Germaine Delbat

Madame La Pierre

Ingrid Pitt

Elvira

Michael Lonsdale

Anton Grigoriev

Curd Jürgens

General Vladimir

Mario Adorf

Claus Kretzschmar

Barry Foster

Saul Enderby

Michael Gough

Mikhel

Rosalie Crutchley

Mother Felicity

Dudley Sutton

Oleg Kirov

Maureen Lipman

Stella Craven

Paul Herzberg

Villem Craven

Seasons

6 episodes

Miniseries1982 · 6 episodes