Acclaimed playwright Dennis Potter's own thinly veiled political opinions are never far from ...
Traitor
Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse
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Traitor
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Status
Released
Release Date
Oct 14, 1971
Runtime
0h 59m
Genres
Drama, TV Movie
User Score
75%
Original Title
Traitor
Production Companies
BBC
Director
Alan Bridges
Description
Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse