Red Joan
- 2018
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- 1h 41min
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L'histoire de Joan Stanley, la plus ancienne espionne britannique du service du KGB.L'histoire de Joan Stanley, la plus ancienne espionne britannique du service du KGB.L'histoire de Joan Stanley, la plus ancienne espionne britannique du service du KGB.
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- AnecdotesThe closing credits note the real-life Melita Norwood incident as having "inspired" the film. At the end of this movie, the reporters outside of Joan Stanley's (Dame Judi Dench's) home ask, "How much money did you get?" She answers, indignantly, "Nothing." In reality, Norwood stated, "I did what I did, not to make money, but to help prevent the defeat of a system which had at great cost given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education, and a health service." (New York Times report 13.9.99.) At that time, the U.K.'s newly elected Labour (Socialist) government under Prime Minister Clement Attlee (shown and played in this movie by Robin Soans), had introduced its first publicly (taxpayer) funded welfare state. On the first day of the new parliament, Labour members sang the socialist anthem the Red Flag.
- GaffesCall boxes from that era had two buttons. 'A' and 'B'. 'A' being pressed if the call is answered and 'B' for return of money if not answered. When Joan makes a call from a public phone box, the person answers the phone and Joan immediately has the conversation without first pressing button 'A'. The person would have been unable to hear her without her first doing that.
- Citations
Joan Stanley: I was fighting for the living, I loved my country!
- ConnexionsFeatures Le cuirassé Potemkine (1925)
- Bandes originalesSweet Serenade
Written and Performed by Geoffrey Peter Gascoyne
Courtesy of KPM Music
Published by EMI Production Music
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Red Joan is a cosy bland film inspired by the true story of granny spy Melita Norwood. She was unmasked as a KGB agent late in her life.
Judi Dench plays the elderly Joan Stanley who is taken in for questioning by the police as a suspected Soviet spy.
Her son Nick (Ben Miles) is a barrister who helps her as she is questioned. Nick learns that his mother was a scientist who worked in the laboratory that developed the atom bomb.
The flashbacks scenes had young Joan (Sophie Cookson) as an idealist communist sympathiser. She is fascinated by Leo (Tom Hughes) and his cousin Sonya who are supporters of the Russian revolution.
Joan gets a job within the Tube Alloys project. The government project that secretly developed the atomic bomb.
After the bombing of Hiroshima. Joan finds herself passing secrets so the Soviets also have parity in the nuclear arms race.
Joan also falls in love with her boss, Professor Max Davis (Stephen Campbell Moore) who is later suspected of possible espionage.
This is a plodding, sludgy film with an interminable romance subplot. This is really a television film.
Just because it is based on true facts does not meant it will be an interesting movie. This does not hold a candle to films/tv shows about the Cambridge Spies; Philby, Burgess, Blunt, Maclean.
There are some good performances but it is a movie with no thrills.
I also did not buy the fact that Russia would not had been able to have developed the atomic bomb without Joan's help. After the war, Russian bought over their own share of Nazi scientists who had worked in developing the bomb.
Judi Dench plays the elderly Joan Stanley who is taken in for questioning by the police as a suspected Soviet spy.
Her son Nick (Ben Miles) is a barrister who helps her as she is questioned. Nick learns that his mother was a scientist who worked in the laboratory that developed the atom bomb.
The flashbacks scenes had young Joan (Sophie Cookson) as an idealist communist sympathiser. She is fascinated by Leo (Tom Hughes) and his cousin Sonya who are supporters of the Russian revolution.
Joan gets a job within the Tube Alloys project. The government project that secretly developed the atomic bomb.
After the bombing of Hiroshima. Joan finds herself passing secrets so the Soviets also have parity in the nuclear arms race.
Joan also falls in love with her boss, Professor Max Davis (Stephen Campbell Moore) who is later suspected of possible espionage.
This is a plodding, sludgy film with an interminable romance subplot. This is really a television film.
Just because it is based on true facts does not meant it will be an interesting movie. This does not hold a candle to films/tv shows about the Cambridge Spies; Philby, Burgess, Blunt, Maclean.
There are some good performances but it is a movie with no thrills.
I also did not buy the fact that Russia would not had been able to have developed the atomic bomb without Joan's help. After the war, Russian bought over their own share of Nazi scientists who had worked in developing the bomb.
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- 6 avr. 2021
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- Red Joan: Au Service Secret de Staline
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- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 1 579 730 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 38 949 $US
- 21 avr. 2019
- Montant brut mondial
- 10 647 493 $US
- Durée1 heure 41 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1
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