Project Detail

Red Joan

Synopsis

In a picturesque village in England, Joan Stanley, lives in contented retirement. Her tranquil existence is shockingly shattered as she’s arrested by MI5. For Joan has been hiding an incredible past; she is one of the most influential spies in living history…
Cambridge University in the 1930s, and the young Joan, a demure physics student, falls intensely in love with a seductively attractive Russian saboteur, Leo. Through him, she begins to see that the world is on a knife-edge and perhaps must be saved from itself in the race to military supremacy. Post-war and now working at a top secret nuclear research facility, Joan is confronted with the impossible: would you betray your country and your loved ones, if it meant saving them? What price would you pay for peace?
Inspired by an extraordinary true story, a taut and emotional discovery of one woman’s sacrifice in the face of incredible circumstances. A woman to whom we perhaps all owe our freedom.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Special Presentations - World premiere

Details

Year: 2018
Type of film: Features
Running time: 110 mins
Director: Trevor Nunn
Producer: David Parfitt
Executive Producer: Ivan Mactaggart, Tim Haslam, Hugo Grumbar, Zygi Kamasa, James Atherton, Jan Pace, Kelly E Ashton, Karl Sydow
Editor: Kristina Hetherington
Screenwriter: Lindsay Shapero
Director of Photography: Zac Nicholson
Production Designer: Cristina Casali
Sound: Will Whale
Composer: George Fenton
Principal cast: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, Tereza Sbrova, Nina Sosanya

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Trademark Films

14A Goodwin's Court
London
WC2N 4LL

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Sales Company

Embankment Films

Westbourne Studios - WE 020
242 Acklam Road
London
W10 5JJ

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