Krieg im Spiegel

Originaltitel: The Looking Glass War

1970
M/PG
1 Std. 48 Min.

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5,8/10

1533

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Pia Degermark and Christopher Jones in Krieg im Spiegel (1970)

trailer wiedergeben3:21

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuFrom the John le Carré novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.From the John le Carré novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.From the John le Carré novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,8/10

1533

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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The Looking Glass War

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A radio play of John le Carré's novel "The Looking Glass War" was produced and broadcast by Radio 4 in 2009, with Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley, Piotr Baumann as Leiser, Patrick Kennedy as Avery, and Ian McDiarmid as LeClerc. This radio play featured the George Smiley character, who had been dropped for this movie.

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The photograph of a railway yard that was the pretext for the mission was supposedly taken in East Germany but the locomotive in the picture is immediately recognizable to any ex-trainspotter as a British Rail type manufactured by English Electric.

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Leiser: What's your name?
John Avery: You can't have my name, it's a breach of security.
Leiser: You know, I'm risking my life for you so I want a name, give me a name, I don't care. Any name!
John Avery: John.
Leiser: John. John.

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Featured in Al Murray's Great British Spy Movies (2014)

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6/10

Disappointing adaptation of a good book

A disappointing adaptation of a good book, with a key aspect of the latter (inter-departmental rivalry) being omitted. I located an on-line copy after the usual frustrations of working through links to Youtube that led to short clips, paid subscription copies and so on.

With several jumps in the plot, I did wonder if the version I saw had been hacked around, but it was the 108 minutes stated here on IMDb. Christopher Jones was unconvincing and uninspiring as Leiser, his fight with Avery a prolonged interpolation and his scrabbling around to get under the wire in the dark protracted. And how lucky he was to come across an attractive girl and child (what happened to him?) in the middle of nowhere - and to bump into her again in a cafe.

The best things were the wide, open European spaces and Anthony Hopkins' acting