Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world as John le Carré.

John le Carré
as Self

Jake Dove
as Teenage David Cornwell

Charlotte Hamblin
as Olive Cornwell

Garry Cooper
as Ronnie Cornwell

Simon Harrison
as Kim Philby

Douglas Rankine
as Rudolf Hess

Dominik Dervaics
as Tony Cornwell

Mike Noble
as Adult David Cornwell
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Did you know that "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" by a certain David Cromwell (aka John Le Carré) sold between 12-15 million physical copies? That's before Richard Burton took on the mantle of "Lemeas" from that novel and long before Sir Alec Guinness took on the part of the forensic super-spy "...
Brent Marchant
Getting inside the head of a spy is undoubtedly challenging; getting inside the head of a novelist who was once a spy who now writes about that enigmatic profession is nearly impossible. And that’s one of the hurdles that hampers this profile of former MI5 and MI6 operative David Cornwell, better kn...