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Feature film — 1987

Blunt (1987)

5.01h 30mTV Movie — Drama

Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy Burgess, he helps Burgess get yet another treasonous British agent to safety in Moscow. When Burgess unexpectedly defects as well, the government becomes suspicious of Blunt, but investigators have trouble believing such a refined and aristocratic gentleman would ever betray his nation and his class.

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Director: John Glenister

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Cast & crew

Ian Richardson as Anthony Blunt

Ian Richardson

Anthony Blunt

Anthony Hopkins as Guy Burgess

Anthony Hopkins

Guy Burgess

Michael Williams as Goronwy Rees

Michael Williams

Goronwy Rees

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Rosie Kerslake

Margie Rees

Geoffrey Chater as Guy Liddell

Geoffrey Chater

Guy Liddell

Albert Welling as Vasily

Albert Welling

Vasily

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Michael McStay

Donald Maclean

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