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Red Joan is a 2018 British spy drama film, directed by Trevor Nunn, from a screenplay by Lindsay Shapero. The film stars Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, Nina Sosanya, Tereza Srbova, and Judi Dench .
Apr 19, 2019 · Red Joan is a cosy bland film inspired by the true story of granny spy Melita Norwood. She was unmasked as a KGB agent late in her life. Judi Dench plays the elderly Joan Stanley who is taken in for questioning by the police as a suspected Soviet spy.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Trevor Nunn
- 2019-04-19
Apr 19, 2019 · In the film, Norwood's character, named Joan, is a Cambridge physics graduate who begins to work as a secretary for the team working on the atomic bomb for...
- Jo-Anne Rowney
A fascinating real-life story dramatized in perplexingly dull fashion, Red Joan wastes its tale's incredible intrigue -- as well as the formidable talents of Judi Dench. Read Critics Reviews ...
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- Trevor Nunn
- R
- Judi Dench
Aug 28, 2019 · The reality saw 87-year-old Norwood in her front garden in London facing the world's media after it was revealed she was a spy - four decades after she used her job at the British Non-Ferrous...
- Jo-Anne Rowney
Jan 16, 2019 · Cut to 1938 where Joan is a Cambridge physics student who falls for young communist Leo Galich and through him, begins to see the world in a new light. Working at a top-secret nuclear research ...
- 2 min
- 2M
- LionsgateFilmsUK
When an unassuming elderly widow is arrested for treason, her tangled secret past as the KGB's longest-serving British spy is exposed. Watch trailers & learn more.
