1 00:01:01,395 --> 00:01:04,231 - One across. - Verisimilitude. 2 00:01:06,567 --> 00:01:09,111 - We're ready. - No. 3 00:01:09,361 --> 00:01:11,572 - What? - You're not ready. 4 00:01:12,573 --> 00:01:14,491 None of you is ready. 5 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:26,128 We want to be sure you are above suspicion. 6 00:01:26,295 --> 00:01:29,173 The British Establishment must believe in you. 7 00:01:29,339 --> 00:01:33,468 - So... - You must become all that you despise. 8 00:01:33,677 --> 00:01:36,180 Become part of the Establishment 9 00:01:36,346 --> 00:01:40,893 and then your inconvenient years will be buried and forgotten. 10 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:44,188 The BBC has always meant a great deal to me. 11 00:01:44,396 --> 00:01:46,857 What does it stand for? 12 00:01:47,107 --> 00:01:50,027 The British Broadcasting Corporation. 13 00:01:52,905 --> 00:01:58,160 If we were to give you this job, what sort of programs would you want to produce? 14 00:01:59,828 --> 00:02:04,416 A series on the eastern Balkans. A program entitled ''Whither Albania?'' 15 00:02:04,625 --> 00:02:09,588 And an in-depth look at the problems in building the telegraph line to Lhasa. 16 00:02:09,838 --> 00:02:12,549 All the things the BBC is for. 17 00:02:17,429 --> 00:02:20,599 - Or I could do something lighter. - Lighter? 18 00:02:20,849 --> 00:02:23,602 - And cheaper. - Cheaper and lighter? 19 00:02:23,852 --> 00:02:25,979 What sort of program? 20 00:02:28,857 --> 00:02:32,819 I'd simply love to produce a program for people with problems. 21 00:02:33,070 --> 00:02:35,948 Live in the studio with their problems. 22 00:02:37,282 --> 00:02:38,909 Title? 23 00:02:42,079 --> 00:02:45,499 ''Auntie's Agony...Auntie''. 24 00:02:54,883 --> 00:02:56,718 Brilliant. 25 00:02:56,927 --> 00:02:58,470 Brilliant. 26 00:03:03,976 --> 00:03:06,436 (SOFT MUSIC PLAYS) 27 00:03:18,490 --> 00:03:21,243 Everyone has to believe we have changed. 28 00:03:21,451 --> 00:03:24,121 A complete burying of the past. 29 00:03:26,665 --> 00:03:28,667 Everyone, Guy. 30 00:03:35,549 --> 00:03:38,510 - You still...? - I love him. I always will. 31 00:03:45,809 --> 00:03:47,728 My name is Julian Bell. 32 00:03:48,979 --> 00:03:52,774 Something happened today - something which changes us all. 33 00:03:53,817 --> 00:03:57,696 The Government have announced it is illegal for men and women 34 00:03:57,905 --> 00:04:01,783 to go to Spain and fight for freedom against Franco. 35 00:04:07,748 --> 00:04:10,834 This is Luisa Jimenez. She's a singer. 36 00:04:12,002 --> 00:04:15,506 Both her father and brother died fighting for freedom. 37 00:04:15,714 --> 00:04:18,800 She's here to ask for help from us. 38 00:04:19,009 --> 00:04:22,554 It's our choice whether we give it or, like our Government, 39 00:04:22,763 --> 00:04:25,057 turn our backs on Luisa... 40 00:04:25,265 --> 00:04:30,145 her father, her brother and Spain. 41 00:04:33,690 --> 00:04:36,485 (PIANO INTRODUCTION) 42 00:04:37,861 --> 00:04:41,114 Si solamente 43 00:04:41,323 --> 00:04:44,785 Me tocaras el corazon 44 00:04:45,744 --> 00:04:48,872 Si solamente 45 00:04:49,081 --> 00:04:52,042 Pusieras tu boca 46 00:04:52,209 --> 00:04:55,504 En mi corazon 47 00:04:56,547 --> 00:04:59,216 Tu fina boca 48 00:04:59,716 --> 00:05:02,928 Tus besos 49 00:05:04,054 --> 00:05:07,015 Si solamente 50 00:05:07,224 --> 00:05:10,185 Me tocaras el corazon... 51 00:05:10,394 --> 00:05:11,895 Thanks. 52 00:05:12,604 --> 00:05:16,567 Como un alma solitaria 53 00:05:18,819 --> 00:05:21,905 Si solamente 54 00:05:22,614 --> 00:05:25,576 Si solamente 55 00:05:26,410 --> 00:05:30,664 Si solamente 56 00:05:34,585 --> 00:05:36,086 Bravo. 57 00:05:42,926 --> 00:05:45,304 - Hello, Guy. - Julian. 58 00:05:55,606 --> 00:05:57,316 Broke? 59 00:05:58,108 --> 00:05:59,860 I can put in for you. 60 00:06:00,068 --> 00:06:02,529 I'm not broke. I just didn't like her voice. 61 00:06:02,779 --> 00:06:05,908 What? Her voice? What are you talking about? 62 00:06:07,451 --> 00:06:10,078 I don't want to contribute, Julian. 63 00:06:10,287 --> 00:06:13,248 Not sure if I believe in all this any more. 64 00:06:14,583 --> 00:06:15,876 Sorry. 65 00:06:53,330 --> 00:06:56,250 We should be more overt, more right-wing. 66 00:06:56,500 --> 00:07:00,379 Scream it from the bloody rooftops and get it over with. 67 00:07:00,629 --> 00:07:03,465 Let's get the whole thing done quickly. 68 00:07:04,842 --> 00:07:06,927 - "Double Burgess, Mr, Burgess?" - "Three," 69 00:07:07,302 --> 00:07:10,931 - Double Burgess? - Vodka, grapefruit juice, vodka. 70 00:07:11,181 --> 00:07:14,142 My morning drink. Chocolate? 71 00:07:14,351 --> 00:07:15,811 No. 72 00:07:17,104 --> 00:07:20,065 - Isn't that one dead? - It's all dead. 73 00:07:20,315 --> 00:07:24,194 On the contrary, it couldn't be more alive. This is everything. 74 00:07:24,361 --> 00:07:27,906 This is where an empire does its thinking. Listen. 75 00:07:29,032 --> 00:07:33,453 The club breathes - a small foreign country's annexed. 76 00:07:33,704 --> 00:07:38,667 The club sighs - women and children scream in the night. 77 00:07:39,710 --> 00:07:41,128 Look. 78 00:07:42,921 --> 00:07:44,506 In... 79 00:07:47,509 --> 00:07:48,969 ..out. 80 00:07:49,219 --> 00:07:53,932 - The belly of the British Empire. - When he gets here, make it subtle, Guy. 81 00:07:54,183 --> 00:07:56,101 When who gets here? 82 00:08:02,566 --> 00:08:05,027 Sets one up for the day...for the next one. 83 00:08:09,990 --> 00:08:12,910 - Here we are. - Here we are what? 84 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,330 Lord Raveley. Subtle, Guy. Be subtle. 85 00:08:21,293 --> 00:08:26,673 Burgess. Knew your father. Fine man. What do you want to see me about? 86 00:08:26,882 --> 00:08:30,677 Hitler and how much you admire him. 87 00:08:33,430 --> 00:08:37,684 I want to be in the admiration society. I gather there's quite a crowd. 88 00:08:43,315 --> 00:08:45,067 Room for more. 89 00:08:47,736 --> 00:08:49,655 Room for more. 90 00:09:03,043 --> 00:09:04,962 Guy... Guy. 91 00:09:05,170 --> 00:09:10,592 Our instructions are to avoid behaving like rabid Nazis. Too much noise is suspicious. 92 00:09:10,801 --> 00:09:14,972 The Anglo-German Fellowship is discreet, profoundly English. 93 00:09:15,180 --> 00:09:21,061 If I were to catch you enjoying yourself, you'd go right down in my estimation. 94 00:09:23,146 --> 00:09:24,898 - Morning, sir. - Morning. 95 00:09:25,107 --> 00:09:30,863 There are no German planes in Spain and no German pilots in Spain - officially. 96 00:09:31,071 --> 00:09:34,700 - Officially, Germany is not helping Franco. - Unofficially? 97 00:09:34,908 --> 00:09:40,122 - Unofficially, a little quiet guidance. - Guidance, not interference. 98 00:09:40,622 --> 00:09:42,124 (KNOCKING) 99 00:09:42,332 --> 00:09:44,960 His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. 100 00:09:53,844 --> 00:09:58,557 - What about the Jews? - We're not concerned with the Jews. 101 00:09:58,765 --> 00:10:02,686 We're promoting the friendship between Germany and England - 102 00:10:02,895 --> 00:10:05,355 temperamentally a natural alliance. 103 00:10:05,522 --> 00:10:09,818 Herr Hitler has views on the Jewish temperament that can't be ignored. 104 00:10:12,154 --> 00:10:16,867 - True, and those views must be respected. - Tolerated or respected? 105 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:19,912 Respected. 106 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,624 The Jew is dangerous, corrupt and impure. 107 00:10:29,421 --> 00:10:32,424 That is an opinion I respect. 108 00:10:32,633 --> 00:10:35,552 It's an opinion, I think, we can all respect. 109 00:10:35,761 --> 00:10:40,015 Good breeding is vital to the health of any nation. 110 00:10:42,726 --> 00:10:44,853 (DOG WHIMPERS) 111 00:10:48,106 --> 00:10:50,359 You're completely over the top. 112 00:10:50,567 --> 00:10:54,154 - The Jew. You said ''the'' Jew. - What? 113 00:10:54,363 --> 00:10:57,491 The. The Jew. You said ''the''. 114 00:10:57,699 --> 00:11:03,914 Are you suggesting that by putting the word ''the'' in front of ''Jew'', I've compromised us? 115 00:11:06,291 --> 00:11:09,294 Burgess. Friend of Blunt's, aren't you? 116 00:11:09,503 --> 00:11:12,714 - Yes. - We're related - him, us. 117 00:11:12,923 --> 00:11:14,883 - So I believe. - Pictures man. 118 00:11:15,092 --> 00:11:18,095 - Pardon? - Pictures. Blunt. Art. 119 00:11:18,262 --> 00:11:21,723 We could do with a bit of help on the art front at Windsor. 120 00:11:21,932 --> 00:11:24,935 Send regards, will you? And tell him to see us. 121 00:11:28,772 --> 00:11:32,192 Me. You. Us. Go. Let's. 122 00:11:36,113 --> 00:11:38,073 Mad bastard. 123 00:11:39,157 --> 00:11:43,120 (WOMAN) If I should take the notion to ump into the ocean 124 00:11:43,287 --> 00:11:47,833 Ain't nobody's business if I do 125 00:11:48,458 --> 00:11:54,131 If I go to church on Sunday Then cabaret all day Monday 126 00:11:54,339 --> 00:11:57,092 Ain't nobody's business if I do,,, 127 00:11:57,301 --> 00:12:00,679 - You can hobnob with big knobs. - Meaning, Guy? 128 00:12:00,929 --> 00:12:04,725 - Blunt related. Him. Us. - The biggest knob of the lot. 129 00:12:04,933 --> 00:12:08,687 - What are you talking about? - HRH wants to see you. 130 00:12:09,688 --> 00:12:11,398 Really? 131 00:12:29,750 --> 00:12:31,335 Julian. 132 00:12:32,669 --> 00:12:35,088 - I'm going to Spain. - When? 133 00:12:35,297 --> 00:12:38,425 Tomorrow. It's time to act. 134 00:12:38,634 --> 00:12:41,887 The time for writing to the ''New Statesman'' is over. 135 00:12:42,846 --> 00:12:47,100 - I had thought it might be something you... - Don't go... You shouldn't go. 136 00:12:47,309 --> 00:12:51,688 Why? Because your new politics tell you Franco's a good thing? 137 00:12:51,897 --> 00:12:54,858 - Because it's dangerous. - It's a war. 138 00:12:55,901 --> 00:12:57,778 I came to say goodbye and... 139 00:12:58,779 --> 00:13:04,493 to tell you how sad it makes me to see that you're not...what you were. 140 00:13:06,453 --> 00:13:11,041 People keep talking about the dark clouds gathering over Europe. 141 00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:13,460 Clouds? Clouds? 142 00:13:13,710 --> 00:13:18,090 It's already raining! Why doesn't anyone see it's bloody raining?! 143 00:13:22,177 --> 00:13:23,846 Funny. 144 00:13:29,059 --> 00:13:30,727 See? 145 00:13:31,895 --> 00:13:33,689 Feel it? 146 00:13:34,648 --> 00:13:36,275 Rain. 147 00:13:46,285 --> 00:13:52,583 In the still and the chill of the night 148 00:13:54,084 --> 00:13:57,588 I see the horizon 149 00:13:57,838 --> 00:14:01,091 The great unknown 150 00:14:01,341 --> 00:14:08,265 My heart has an ache, it's as heavy as stone,,, 151 00:14:18,150 --> 00:14:21,278 (FOOTSTEPS APPROACH) 152 00:14:22,821 --> 00:14:24,615 (DOOR CLOSES) 153 00:14:44,635 --> 00:14:47,679 (FOOTSTEPS) 154 00:14:51,391 --> 00:14:53,852 (SOFT KNOCKING) 155 00:15:04,905 --> 00:15:06,657 Good evening, sir. 156 00:15:13,747 --> 00:15:17,417 Bailed to attend Bow Street Magistrates Court for trial. 157 00:15:17,626 --> 00:15:22,631 I'm following Oscar Wilde, and I've got a lot more to declare than my genius. 158 00:15:24,049 --> 00:15:28,762 - A criminal record would... - Destroy everything, Kim. In a nutshell. 159 00:15:30,931 --> 00:15:34,935 - Where are we going? - To tell people about our weekend. 160 00:15:35,143 --> 00:15:36,520 What people? 161 00:15:37,521 --> 00:15:39,773 Mad, the lot of them. 50... 162 00:15:41,483 --> 00:15:44,945 50 MPs, three directors of the Bank of England, 163 00:15:45,153 --> 00:15:48,031 generals, admirals, bishops and bankers. 164 00:15:48,198 --> 00:15:52,661 A signal to Hitler there is real sympathy for his policies in England. 165 00:15:54,037 --> 00:15:56,331 - I have to go. - Where? 166 00:15:56,540 --> 00:15:59,501 To speak to the British intelligence services. 167 00:15:59,710 --> 00:16:03,005 It's a way in - telling them about the lunatics. 168 00:16:03,213 --> 00:16:07,551 When they realize how invaluable I am, they'll employ me. 169 00:16:08,468 --> 00:16:11,430 - You've arranged a meeting? - Yes. 170 00:16:12,389 --> 00:16:15,434 - It's a very good idea, Otto. - A very good idea. 171 00:16:17,436 --> 00:16:21,064 Never do anything like this again without permission. 172 00:16:21,273 --> 00:16:25,944 You are not free agents. And never, never meet with me together. 173 00:16:26,153 --> 00:16:29,072 It breaks the rules. It's amateur. It's English. 174 00:16:32,075 --> 00:16:35,204 And I want you to be safe. 175 00:16:35,412 --> 00:16:37,664 It's a good idea. 176 00:16:38,749 --> 00:16:44,630 I will get Moscow to suggest it themselves, then it will be an even better idea. 177 00:16:45,339 --> 00:16:50,928 I thought you should know the extent of the friendship being offered to Germany. 178 00:16:51,136 --> 00:16:54,097 I'm well placed to carry on reporting to you. 179 00:16:56,642 --> 00:16:58,227 Eton. 180 00:16:59,269 --> 00:17:02,689 - I left in 1920. - A bit before my time. 181 00:17:05,067 --> 00:17:07,069 Ties that bind. 182 00:17:27,214 --> 00:17:29,925 - You look like a queer. - I am a queer. 183 00:17:30,133 --> 00:17:36,139 Guy, there are people who'd like you to pretend not to be for an hour or two. 184 00:17:37,683 --> 00:17:40,143 What are you doing for lunch? 185 00:17:42,020 --> 00:17:43,689 (GAVEL BANGS) 186 00:17:43,897 --> 00:17:45,858 All rise! 187 00:17:53,740 --> 00:17:57,411 I was so engrossed in ''Middlemarch'' that I stayed for a long time. 188 00:17:57,619 --> 00:18:01,456 Great literature cannot be disturbed, but I was. 189 00:18:01,665 --> 00:18:05,294 A note came through from the next lavatory. 190 00:18:05,502 --> 00:18:09,298 I read it and, frankly, I was horrified. 191 00:18:12,801 --> 00:18:16,471 Does Your Worship mind if I don't repeat what it said? 192 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,849 I passed the note back. 193 00:18:19,057 --> 00:18:23,937 The prosecution have suggested that the note emanated from you. 194 00:18:24,146 --> 00:18:29,026 I give you my word as an Eton man and a Cambridge man that it didn't. 195 00:18:29,234 --> 00:18:33,906 You're suggesting that this man is a liar and his word is worth less than yours? 196 00:18:34,114 --> 00:18:38,160 I was so excited by the preparation of Rosamund's marriage linen 197 00:18:38,368 --> 00:18:41,497 that I cannot say for sure from which side the note came. 198 00:18:41,705 --> 00:18:46,293 I may have passed it back the wrong way to this, no doubt innocent, man. 199 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:54,092 All rise! 200 00:19:07,898 --> 00:19:09,858 Guy Burgess. 201 00:19:10,067 --> 00:19:15,280 This case turns on whether your word as a gentleman is to be relied on. 202 00:19:15,489 --> 00:19:19,243 I have made up my mind. 203 00:19:21,411 --> 00:19:23,664 I find... 204 00:19:29,461 --> 00:19:32,714 it can be relied on. 205 00:19:32,923 --> 00:19:35,759 The verdict is not guilty. You are free to go. 206 00:20:05,289 --> 00:20:08,125 We were considering more formal relations. 207 00:20:08,333 --> 00:20:11,795 - Anything to make my country better. - Eton, Cambridge... 208 00:20:12,004 --> 00:20:15,757 - The intelligence services. - It's a well-trodden path. 209 00:20:20,179 --> 00:20:23,599 - Ties that bind. - I hadn't noticed. 210 00:20:24,725 --> 00:20:28,145 The BBC have asked us to vet their staff for them. 211 00:20:28,395 --> 00:20:31,773 The mouthpiece of the nation must have healthy gums. 212 00:20:31,982 --> 00:20:37,905 Since you're at the BBC, would you mind? A few discreet inquiries. Nothing too blunt. 213 00:20:46,538 --> 00:20:50,792 My name is Fanny Battle and I have a terrible callus on my sole. 214 00:20:51,043 --> 00:20:55,464 I've tried everything. I'm at my wit's end. Can you help me, Auntie? 215 00:20:55,672 --> 00:21:00,010 A callus on the sole? How long have you had this condition? 216 00:21:09,061 --> 00:21:10,646 Where were you born? 217 00:21:10,854 --> 00:21:13,023 - Chislehurst. - School? 218 00:21:13,273 --> 00:21:14,691 - Yes, sir. - Which one? 219 00:21:14,858 --> 00:21:17,861 - Chislehurst Girls. - Are you a Communist? 220 00:21:18,070 --> 00:21:20,948 - No, sir! - Good. Very good. 221 00:21:21,114 --> 00:21:24,409 That Marx - dreary old bugger. 222 00:21:34,586 --> 00:21:38,048 Donald's been thinking about the Foreign Office. 223 00:21:38,215 --> 00:21:43,053 It's important at times like these to put the right people in the right places. 224 00:21:43,303 --> 00:21:47,224 Does Donald have the same ideas about the friends of this country? 225 00:21:47,432 --> 00:21:50,894 Why don't you ask Donald as Donald's here? 226 00:21:52,229 --> 00:21:57,025 I'm in favor of strong, friendly ties with Germany. Hitler's a great man. 227 00:22:00,571 --> 00:22:03,866 You'd like me to put in a word? 228 00:22:05,617 --> 00:22:09,121 - Mr. Blunt, a gentleman to see you. - Excuse me. 229 00:22:16,295 --> 00:22:18,046 What is it? 230 00:22:18,255 --> 00:22:21,425 - Julian Bell. - What? Tell me. 231 00:22:24,219 --> 00:22:25,888 Dead? 232 00:22:47,576 --> 00:22:49,453 Guy? 233 00:22:50,496 --> 00:22:51,955 Guy. 234 00:22:52,164 --> 00:22:54,124 I have something to tell you. 235 00:22:55,792 --> 00:22:57,836 It's Julian. 236 00:23:40,712 --> 00:23:44,675 - "How?" - "Blown up, Driving an ambulance," 237 00:23:44,842 --> 00:23:50,138 His family made him promise he would drive ambulances rather than fight. 238 00:24:44,276 --> 00:24:45,944 (KNOCKING) 239 00:24:49,698 --> 00:24:51,658 What's this? 240 00:24:51,867 --> 00:24:55,204 - Write a report on it for the minister. - What is it? 241 00:24:55,412 --> 00:24:58,499 Information on German armaments sent to Spain. 242 00:24:58,707 --> 00:25:02,753 Number and size of shells, number of aircraft, tanks. 243 00:25:02,961 --> 00:25:05,422 It's a very full account. 244 00:25:07,466 --> 00:25:09,218 I don't know your name. 245 00:25:10,636 --> 00:25:12,095 Norma. 246 00:25:13,180 --> 00:25:14,765 Norma... 247 00:25:19,853 --> 00:25:23,232 - When does the minister need it? - Plenty of time. 248 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,068 - Not today? - No. 249 00:25:27,611 --> 00:25:29,863 It's your first day, isn't it? 250 00:25:30,072 --> 00:25:31,532 Yes. 251 00:25:31,782 --> 00:25:34,993 Relax. You'll be fine. 252 00:25:59,226 --> 00:26:01,144 Am I ready? 253 00:26:01,979 --> 00:26:05,899 Otto, tell me I'm right-wing enough. I'm writing for the ''Times''. 254 00:26:06,149 --> 00:26:09,236 I'm a member of the Reform Club! 255 00:26:09,444 --> 00:26:13,782 - You're leaving London. - The ''Times'' are sending me to Spain. 256 00:26:13,991 --> 00:26:18,287 It's a chance for me to do some real work for you, to be useful. 257 00:26:18,495 --> 00:26:20,622 - No. - What? 258 00:26:20,873 --> 00:26:25,252 Your reports on the war will be heavily biased in favor of the Fascists. 259 00:26:25,460 --> 00:26:26,879 Listen. 260 00:26:28,172 --> 00:26:31,842 The deeper that Moscow want you to bury your past, 261 00:26:32,050 --> 00:26:35,512 the more importance they attach to your potential. 262 00:26:36,805 --> 00:26:39,057 It's a simple equation. 263 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,313 (SOFT SPANISH GUITAR) 264 00:26:51,278 --> 00:26:52,738 Nice bar. 265 00:26:52,988 --> 00:26:58,368 You could report the war from here. Drink gin and get all the stories you need. 266 00:27:01,371 --> 00:27:03,123 Who's that? 267 00:27:03,373 --> 00:27:06,502 Lady Frances. Pro-Franco English aristocrat. 268 00:27:06,710 --> 00:27:09,588 - Part-time reporter. - Full-time socialite! 269 00:27:10,506 --> 00:27:14,384 - Who's she with? - They're German Embassy. 270 00:27:16,929 --> 00:27:19,473 Why does she keep looking at us? 271 00:27:19,723 --> 00:27:23,644 - You, I'd say. Not us. - Welcome to Spain. 272 00:27:43,580 --> 00:27:46,792 I'm very sorry about your friend, Julian Bell. 273 00:27:48,377 --> 00:27:50,337 I loved him. 274 00:27:51,380 --> 00:27:55,467 - I was a priest before this. - What happened? 275 00:27:55,676 --> 00:28:01,431 The Great War. I saw things that took away my faith. 276 00:28:01,682 --> 00:28:05,394 If there is a God, He wouldn't have allowed it. 277 00:28:06,603 --> 00:28:09,398 Where was God at Passchendaele? 278 00:28:11,775 --> 00:28:14,069 Now you have a new faith. 279 00:28:14,278 --> 00:28:18,740 My family can't come to terms with me leaving the Church. 280 00:28:18,949 --> 00:28:22,411 - I was very close to my brother. - Was? 281 00:28:22,619 --> 00:28:25,914 Yes. We don't speak. 282 00:28:29,376 --> 00:28:33,338 - Is he a priest? - No, no. A pianist, a brilliant one. 283 00:28:33,547 --> 00:28:38,927 I've never seen him play. He's playing a concert here in London soon. 284 00:28:39,136 --> 00:28:41,096 Will you go? 285 00:28:42,514 --> 00:28:46,018 I want you to go to Spain to pass on an order. 286 00:28:50,230 --> 00:28:53,775 It's very good to see you, Guy. Very good. 287 00:28:53,984 --> 00:28:57,112 I hear you're the Fascists' favorite reporter. 288 00:28:58,155 --> 00:29:04,036 I go where they send me. A guided tour, then I write what they want me to write. 289 00:29:04,244 --> 00:29:06,997 It can't be easy sleeping with the enemy. 290 00:29:07,206 --> 00:29:10,792 I'm so good at it, they're going to give me a medal. 291 00:29:11,001 --> 00:29:14,546 Franco himself will pin it on my heroic breast. 292 00:29:17,174 --> 00:29:21,720 Moscow wants you to do something. It comes from the very top. 293 00:29:22,554 --> 00:29:24,681 How do you know? 294 00:29:28,727 --> 00:29:32,523 - You'll be so close to him. Terribly close. - My God. 295 00:29:32,731 --> 00:29:34,608 - Yes. - Kill Franco? 296 00:29:34,816 --> 00:29:38,445 - When Stalin has an idea, it's a good idea. - He's right. 297 00:29:38,654 --> 00:29:40,864 - Of course. - Franco should die. 298 00:29:41,073 --> 00:29:42,950 He's a monster. It's time to act. 299 00:29:45,369 --> 00:29:50,374 If I do this, then the network that we're building... 300 00:29:50,582 --> 00:29:56,129 Will be no more. Everyone who's ever been near you will be tainted and... 301 00:29:56,338 --> 00:29:57,840 And? 302 00:29:58,048 --> 00:30:01,176 There's almost no chance of you surviving. 303 00:30:02,219 --> 00:30:05,639 Kill Franco and be killed in the act of doing it. 304 00:30:07,057 --> 00:30:12,187 You have to decide between your friends, your own death... 305 00:30:12,396 --> 00:30:14,398 and a good idea. 306 00:30:18,652 --> 00:30:20,696 Who would pay? 307 00:30:21,947 --> 00:30:25,993 If I don't do it, who would pay? 308 00:30:39,256 --> 00:30:42,759 I'm a bit worried. There's a woman at work. 309 00:30:43,594 --> 00:30:47,389 - What's her name? - Norma. She's behaving strangely. 310 00:30:47,598 --> 00:30:49,808 What does she look like? 311 00:30:50,017 --> 00:30:53,937 - A little faded. Older than me. - She's 44. 312 00:30:54,771 --> 00:30:59,234 - How do you know? - She's a friend. A good friend. 313 00:31:01,528 --> 00:31:04,656 I didn't realize who you were, at first. 314 00:31:04,865 --> 00:31:07,618 Things are seldom what they seem. 315 00:31:07,826 --> 00:31:12,372 - I know we're not supposed to ask, but... - Do I come here often? 316 00:31:12,581 --> 00:31:16,543 Have I been doing this work long? Am I all right? 317 00:31:16,752 --> 00:31:20,964 Sorry. I'm new to all of this, as you know. 318 00:31:21,173 --> 00:31:26,470 I just wondered what it's like to live with it for a long time. 319 00:31:28,013 --> 00:31:30,307 It gets lonely. 320 00:31:31,642 --> 00:31:33,560 It becomes... 321 00:31:34,728 --> 00:31:36,480 lonely. 322 00:31:37,439 --> 00:31:39,358 You know that. 323 00:31:52,788 --> 00:31:54,957 Very lonely. 324 00:32:18,730 --> 00:32:20,983 Sorry. I can't... 325 00:32:21,567 --> 00:32:22,985 Sorry. 326 00:32:23,861 --> 00:32:26,155 - It's all right. - Sorry. 327 00:32:26,363 --> 00:32:27,739 Sorry. 328 00:34:01,625 --> 00:34:05,337 (INDISTINCT WHISPERING) 329 00:34:38,162 --> 00:34:42,249 For your heroic actions in the struggle against Communism. 330 00:35:28,003 --> 00:35:31,298 (CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS LOUDLY) 331 00:35:46,897 --> 00:35:49,691 (MUSIC STOPS, SPARSE APPLAUSE) 332 00:35:59,701 --> 00:36:01,411 Did you know I wouldn't do it? 333 00:36:01,620 --> 00:36:04,373 If I had to betray my country or betray my friend, 334 00:36:04,581 --> 00:36:07,751 I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. 335 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,338 Friendship, Kim. Friendship above everything. 336 00:36:11,547 --> 00:36:14,633 - Even if it's an adopted country? - Any country. 337 00:36:14,842 --> 00:36:19,930 England, Russia, it doesn't matter. Friendship first. 338 00:36:32,734 --> 00:36:35,988 I wanted to find where he died, but it's not possible. 339 00:36:36,196 --> 00:36:40,409 Would you...? Sounds silly, but... 340 00:36:41,785 --> 00:36:46,331 I was going to bury it here in Spain. 341 00:37:15,110 --> 00:37:17,362 Buenos dias, padre. 342 00:37:24,703 --> 00:37:28,290 - Compreme algo, senora. - No, gracias, hoy no. 343 00:37:28,499 --> 00:37:31,126 (PLANE DRONES) 344 00:38:00,948 --> 00:38:06,286 A German officer came to see me today. Would I consider helping? 345 00:38:06,495 --> 00:38:10,290 ''Helping?'' I said. ''The Third Reich.'' 346 00:38:10,499 --> 00:38:13,252 - What did you say? - I said I'd think about it. 347 00:38:14,294 --> 00:38:20,968 Do you know something? The real temptation for a girl like me? The uniforms. 348 00:38:21,176 --> 00:38:24,429 Really very glamorous and so clean. 349 00:38:24,638 --> 00:38:28,350 You can see your face in the boots of a German soldier. 350 00:38:28,559 --> 00:38:33,564 Any girl who says a Nazi in full kit isn't to die for is a liar. 351 00:38:33,814 --> 00:38:35,482 (RADIO IS ON) 352 00:38:35,691 --> 00:38:39,278 Am I making you jealous? Poor darling. 353 00:38:39,528 --> 00:38:41,697 - Are you a little green-eyed? - Shh! 354 00:38:41,905 --> 00:38:43,574 - What? - Listen! 355 00:38:43,782 --> 00:38:47,369 - (INDISTINCT SPANISH) - Something's happened. 356 00:38:47,578 --> 00:38:49,538 A place called Guernica. 357 00:39:42,299 --> 00:39:45,636 (SHE HOWLS) 358 00:40:38,522 --> 00:40:41,275 Periodista ingles. Aviones. 359 00:40:41,483 --> 00:40:45,112 Aviones. Bombas. Muchas bombas. Hitler. 360 00:40:45,362 --> 00:40:48,448 - He said bombs, bombs... - I know what he said. 361 00:40:48,657 --> 00:40:51,952 Quiero que le digas al mundo lo que esta pasando en Guernica. 362 00:40:52,161 --> 00:40:56,915 He hopes that you will tell the world what has happened here in Guernica. 363 00:41:09,261 --> 00:41:14,308 There is no German involvement here. Herr Hitler is innocent in this. 364 00:41:15,100 --> 00:41:20,731 Dice que no lo va a hacer. Que los alemanes no estan involucrados. Que Hitler es inocente. 365 00:41:52,429 --> 00:41:54,723 (FLIES BUZZ) 366 00:42:29,383 --> 00:42:31,343 (DOOR SHUTS) 367 00:42:31,552 --> 00:42:36,932 Shall I tell you what happened? What really happened? This is my report. 368 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:44,439 ''The Republicans did it themselves. The Reds blew up their own town. 369 00:42:44,648 --> 00:42:47,609 ''Why? To get international sympathy.'' 370 00:42:47,818 --> 00:42:51,989 So you're right about there being no German planes? 371 00:42:52,197 --> 00:42:56,410 Communist propaganda. ''Rojos. Comunista.'' 372 00:42:58,453 --> 00:43:00,706 I saw my German officer. 373 00:43:02,166 --> 00:43:04,960 He's very interested in what I might offer him. 374 00:43:05,169 --> 00:43:08,172 - Go away. - What? 375 00:43:08,338 --> 00:43:10,340 Go away, please. 376 00:43:12,759 --> 00:43:15,262 - You're busy. - Go away! 377 00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:40,537 Thank you. 378 00:43:41,580 --> 00:43:45,042 - There's going to be a war. - Yes, ma'am. 379 00:43:45,250 --> 00:43:50,881 And the Germans will be a formidable enemy. We will all of us need... 380 00:43:51,507 --> 00:43:55,719 Courage? Strength? Resilience? 381 00:43:55,928 --> 00:43:59,765 - Bottom. Lots of bottom, Anthony. - Yes, ma'am. 382 00:44:00,807 --> 00:44:02,518 - Drink? - Thank you. 383 00:44:05,687 --> 00:44:07,898 - By Royal Appointment. - Ma'am? 384 00:44:08,106 --> 00:44:13,529 The gin. Which is more than can be said for that wretched American woman. 385 00:44:14,321 --> 00:44:15,906 Mrs. Simpson? 386 00:44:16,114 --> 00:44:20,869 Dreadful snob and mad keen on that ridiculous man with the nostril warmer. 387 00:44:21,078 --> 00:44:23,372 - Ma'am? - Hitler. 388 00:44:24,081 --> 00:44:26,375 Never trust a man with a bad moustache. 389 00:44:28,085 --> 00:44:31,880 Homosexualists never have moustaches. Have you noticed? 390 00:44:32,548 --> 00:44:35,884 I think it's a signal to other chaps. 391 00:44:36,093 --> 00:44:39,179 ''Look. No moustache. Come and get me.'' 392 00:44:40,514 --> 00:44:45,727 Ponces and spies, Anthony. The people with most to hide never have moustaches. 393 00:44:46,770 --> 00:44:49,231 So which are you, Anthony? Ponce? 394 00:44:50,691 --> 00:44:52,526 Or spy? 395 00:44:53,986 --> 00:44:56,405 Oh...a little of both. 396 00:44:57,322 --> 00:44:59,241 Aren't we all? 397 00:45:01,660 --> 00:45:04,496 (CLOCK CHIMES) 398 00:45:08,167 --> 00:45:13,589 I'm off sentry duty now, Mr. Blunt. Did they tire you out, the ladies? 399 00:45:13,797 --> 00:45:19,636 - No. No, they didn't. Ladies don't. - Then I can buy you a drink. 400 00:45:22,472 --> 00:45:24,474 I don't want a drink. 401 00:45:31,482 --> 00:45:34,485 Sorry. Couldn't get away from the palace. 402 00:45:39,072 --> 00:45:42,784 - Changing of the guard and all that. - Anything interesting? 403 00:45:45,037 --> 00:45:49,291 - We drank gin together, the Queen and I. - How much gin? 404 00:45:49,500 --> 00:45:51,126 - Three. - Three? 405 00:45:51,335 --> 00:45:52,753 - Doubles. - Doubles? 406 00:45:52,961 --> 00:45:56,548 - Before six. - Is it a problem, her drinking? 407 00:45:56,798 --> 00:46:00,219 Put it this way, I don't think she'll outlive Stalin. 408 00:46:03,347 --> 00:46:06,308 - What is it? - Nothing. 409 00:46:06,558 --> 00:46:07,976 Really? 410 00:46:09,311 --> 00:46:12,272 Moscow will be pleased with your royal news. 411 00:46:12,523 --> 00:46:16,235 - Good. - Comrade Stalin will be very pleased. 412 00:46:19,571 --> 00:46:22,658 ''He knew human folly like the back of his hand 413 00:46:22,866 --> 00:46:25,661 ''and was greatly interested in armies and fleets. 414 00:46:25,869 --> 00:46:29,998 ''When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter. 415 00:46:30,249 --> 00:46:34,169 ''And when he cried, little children died in the streets.'' 416 00:46:34,378 --> 00:46:36,672 It's called ''Epitaph on a Tyrant''. 417 00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:38,799 (DOOR OPENS) 418 00:46:40,050 --> 00:46:43,136 The royal favorite returns. 419 00:46:43,387 --> 00:46:46,431 What's that smell? Crushed lavender. 420 00:46:46,682 --> 00:46:51,186 The whiff of perfumed Windsor bosom to which you have been taken. 421 00:46:51,395 --> 00:46:55,649 - What's this? Sex. I smell sex. - Shut up, Guy. 422 00:46:55,899 --> 00:47:00,696 It's happened. Anthony's been up a Windsor. 423 00:47:00,904 --> 00:47:04,825 Who's Auden talking about in the poem? Who's the tyrant? 424 00:47:05,075 --> 00:47:07,619 - Kim. - Hitler. 425 00:47:08,912 --> 00:47:11,331 Hitler is the tyrant, Jack. 426 00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,877 He has to be stopped. He has to be. 427 00:47:15,127 --> 00:47:21,550 I've seen what his planes and his weapons and his pilots have done in Spain. 428 00:47:23,051 --> 00:47:25,596 I've seen children dead in the streets. 429 00:47:26,555 --> 00:47:28,515 Little children. 430 00:47:30,893 --> 00:47:35,230 This burying of our past and pretending to be right-wing... Enough! 431 00:47:36,565 --> 00:47:38,609 The past is buried. 432 00:47:38,859 --> 00:47:44,031 We have to start fighting for the future, and the fight starts now. 433 00:47:49,703 --> 00:47:54,082 You have all the credentials - background, experience. 434 00:47:54,291 --> 00:47:57,294 I'm sure you'll be a real asset to us. 435 00:47:57,503 --> 00:48:02,799 But I want a colleague to confirm my impression. Tomorrow. Here. Same time. 436 00:48:06,303 --> 00:48:10,474 Why does she want a second opinion? Is it something they've traced? 437 00:48:10,682 --> 00:48:14,520 Did they go back to Cambridge and look? Guy? 438 00:48:16,730 --> 00:48:20,859 Maybe it's Litzi. Maybe they've dug up my marriage to a Communist. 439 00:48:21,068 --> 00:48:24,738 - Relax. It'll be fine. - How the hell do you know? 440 00:48:36,124 --> 00:48:37,584 (KNOCKING) 441 00:48:42,965 --> 00:48:46,510 - You know each other? - From university. 442 00:48:46,718 --> 00:48:49,179 We were at Trinity together. 443 00:48:56,353 --> 00:49:01,692 Mad bastard, Guy! Do they really not know we're friends? So amateur. 444 00:49:01,900 --> 00:49:07,197 School and university gets you in. The tea lady could give you more serious vetting. 445 00:49:07,406 --> 00:49:09,950 - They have a tea lady? - A very nice tea lady. 446 00:49:10,159 --> 00:49:11,493 - Cake? - Good cake. 447 00:49:11,702 --> 00:49:13,537 - Where did she go to school? - Eton. 448 00:49:13,745 --> 00:49:16,498 Sound fellow, our tea lady. 449 00:49:16,707 --> 00:49:19,835 So here we are, all in place. The FO. 450 00:49:20,043 --> 00:49:21,753 - Intelligence. - Buck House. 451 00:49:21,962 --> 00:49:24,423 The BBC. A foot in all the right doors. 452 00:49:24,631 --> 00:49:27,217 - Bowler hats. - Jermyn Street gents. 453 00:49:27,426 --> 00:49:31,722 - Right inside the Establishment. - Ready to do wonderful damage. 454 00:49:31,930 --> 00:49:34,975 - To a better future. - A better future! 455 00:49:38,645 --> 00:49:43,025 It's your brother's concert tonight. I'm going. Are you? 456 00:49:43,233 --> 00:49:46,236 - Otto? - I am being called back. 457 00:49:46,445 --> 00:49:48,697 - What? - To Moscow. 458 00:49:49,907 --> 00:49:53,744 Franco is alive and well. Good ideas don't fail. 459 00:49:53,952 --> 00:49:56,788 Not without someone paying the price. 460 00:49:58,081 --> 00:50:00,584 - Why don't you...? - What? 461 00:50:01,251 --> 00:50:04,963 Go to Switzerland? Hide for the rest of my life? No. 462 00:50:05,172 --> 00:50:07,090 I will go back. 463 00:50:07,299 --> 00:50:11,803 There's a funny phrase you have. I've loved it since I first heard it. 464 00:50:12,012 --> 00:50:16,016 ''Face the music.'' I will face the music. 465 00:50:19,269 --> 00:50:23,649 Did you know that Siberia has one-twelfth of the world's land mass 466 00:50:23,857 --> 00:50:25,859 and almost none of its people. 467 00:50:26,109 --> 00:50:29,780 - Otto, I... - Of course, it won't be Siberia. 468 00:50:30,948 --> 00:50:32,699 What do you mean? 469 00:50:32,908 --> 00:50:37,621 We both know what being recalled to Moscow means. Don't make me say it. 470 00:50:40,082 --> 00:50:44,002 - I'm so sorry... - Please. I don't blame you at all. 471 00:50:44,628 --> 00:50:50,801 The good idea was a bad idea. You shouldn't have been asked, but you were. 472 00:50:54,471 --> 00:50:56,598 I have to go now. 473 00:50:57,933 --> 00:50:59,393 Goodbye... 474 00:51:00,853 --> 00:51:02,604 Kim Philby. 475 00:51:12,656 --> 00:51:15,617 (CLASSICAL PIANO MUSIC) 476 00:51:44,980 --> 00:51:48,859 Hitler and Stalin agreeing not to fight? Is the world upside down? 477 00:51:49,109 --> 00:51:53,489 Stalin must have a reason. He's not ready for war, he's buying time. 478 00:51:53,697 --> 00:51:56,992 I've given them everything: Litzi, my dignity. 479 00:51:57,201 --> 00:52:03,207 I stood in the blood at Guernica and denied everything I believed in... For what? 480 00:52:04,333 --> 00:52:07,002 How could he? How could he do this? 481 00:52:07,211 --> 00:52:09,630 - Kim, listen... - I gave them my life. 482 00:52:09,838 --> 00:52:13,884 Listen. You and I, we have to be strong. 483 00:52:15,511 --> 00:52:18,263 We have to keep the four of us together. 484 00:52:21,892 --> 00:52:26,355 (RADIO ) This morning, the British ambassador in Berlin 485 00:52:26,605 --> 00:52:30,234 handed the German government a final note, 486 00:52:30,484 --> 00:52:34,196 stating that unless we heard from them by 11,,, 487 00:52:34,446 --> 00:52:36,990 No such undertaking has been received 488 00:52:37,241 --> 00:52:42,704 and, consequently, this country is at war with Germany, 489 00:52:45,082 --> 00:52:50,629 Stalin is buying time to rearm. He cares only about Russia and her survival. 490 00:52:50,879 --> 00:52:54,716 What people feel about signing a treaty with Hitler is irrelevant. 491 00:52:54,925 --> 00:52:58,846 Irrelevant? It's like the Pope making friends with the Devil! 492 00:52:59,096 --> 00:53:03,016 If Stalin hadn't signed, Moscow would be full of Germans by now. 493 00:53:03,267 --> 00:53:07,604 He knows he'll have to fight Hitler. He wants it to be later. 494 00:53:07,771 --> 00:53:11,066 - You know I'm right. - I'm going for a pee. 495 00:53:19,783 --> 00:53:24,663 We're at war with Germany. Hitler and Stalin are technically allies. 496 00:53:24,872 --> 00:53:27,374 - Our position is different. - Position? 497 00:53:27,624 --> 00:53:31,837 We used to be simple traitors. Now we're traitors in wartime. 498 00:53:32,087 --> 00:53:36,466 If we're caught, it's a different game. We could be executed. 499 00:53:39,928 --> 00:53:42,931 You're worried about Guy and Donald. 500 00:53:43,849 --> 00:53:48,020 We stand or fall together - one of us goes, we all go. 501 00:54:02,451 --> 00:54:08,373 What would you say if I were to tell you I was a Soviet agent? I am, you know. 502 00:54:08,582 --> 00:54:10,709 You can be whatever you want, 503 00:54:10,959 --> 00:54:16,673 and I can be a nurse or a nanny or the girl you're pining for. It's all the same to me. 504 00:54:18,342 --> 00:54:23,764 Ten shillings will buy you a good time. My place is round the corner. Coming? 505 00:54:43,242 --> 00:54:46,036 - What? - Guy? 506 00:54:46,995 --> 00:54:49,623 - What did you say? - He didn't say anything. 507 00:54:49,832 --> 00:54:52,417 - I don't think it's funny. - Come on. 508 00:54:52,626 --> 00:54:54,378 Come on, what? 509 00:54:55,587 --> 00:54:59,007 - What are you saying? - Nobody spoke. 510 00:54:59,216 --> 00:55:00,676 - Nobody spoke? - No. 511 00:55:00,884 --> 00:55:02,678 - Nobody spoke? - No. 512 00:55:03,470 --> 00:55:08,851 You looked at him and he looked at you and there was a whole fucking conversation. 513 00:55:09,643 --> 00:55:14,314 ''Guy's emotional. It's the Hitler-Stalin business. He's not taking it well.'' 514 00:55:14,523 --> 00:55:19,403 Nods and winks and catching each other's eyes. Like spies. 515 00:55:23,866 --> 00:55:26,034 - Mad bastard. - What did you say? 516 00:55:27,202 --> 00:55:29,621 - Come on, Guy. - Wait a minute. 517 00:55:29,830 --> 00:55:33,250 - Mad bastard? Is that what you said? - Guy. 518 00:55:33,458 --> 00:55:37,504 I'm asking you a question, Kim. Did you call me a mad bastard? 519 00:55:47,639 --> 00:55:50,601 - Mad bastard. - What did you say? 520 00:56:32,309 --> 00:56:38,232 You didn't flinch. You didn't move when the glass went past your face. 521 00:56:45,197 --> 00:56:48,742 - Have faith, Guy. - Faith? 522 00:56:48,951 --> 00:56:54,790 It's hard. If it weren't, it wouldn't have such profound rewards.