Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
How do you find an enemy who is hidden right before your eyes?
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus.Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
- Director
- Tomas Alfredson
- Worldwide
- $82M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
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The record
Awards
2 wins · 8 nominations
Academy Awards
No wins yet · 3 nominations
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Actor
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Original Score
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
European Film Award for Best Composer
1 win · 1 nomination
- WinnerEuropean Film Award for Best Composer
European Film Award for Best Production Designer
1 win · 1 nomination
- WinnerEuropean Film Award for Best Production Designer
European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerEuropean Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film
European Film Award for Best Actor
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerEuropean Film Award for Best Actor
European Film Award for Best Cinematographer
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerEuropean Film Award for Best Cinematographer
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy returned 2.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $30M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $82M
- Release date
- Sep 16, 2011
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, French
- Country
- Germany, France
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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