The Pigeon Tunnel
"Stories from the life of John le Carré."
Documentary
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.
🎬 DirectorErrol Morris
📅 Release2023-10-20
🌍 CountryUnited Kingdom, United States of America
🗣 LanguageEnglish
🏢 StudioThe Ink Factory, Fourth Floor Productions, Storyteller Productions
🗳 Votes35
🔥 Popularity1
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🎭 Cast
John le Carré
Self
Jake Dove
Teenage David Cornwell
Charlotte Hamblin
Olive Cornwell
Garry Cooper
Ronnie Cornwell
Simon Harrison
Kim Philby
Douglas Rankine
Rudolf Hess
Dominik Dervaics
Tony Cornwell
Mike Noble
Adult David Cornwell
🎥 Crew
Producer
Errol Morris
Producer
Dominic Crossley-Holland
Writer
Errol Morris
Director
Errol Morris
Executive Producer
Hossein Amini
Executive Producer
Joe Tsai
Producer
Simon Cornwell
Executive Producer
P.J. van Sandwijk
Executive Producer
Michael Lesslie
Producer
Stephen Cornwell
🖼 Gallery
🏷 Keywords
based on true storybritish spycrime fiction writer
💬 Reviews
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 "George Smiley" in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and that gives us quite an indication as the phenomen…
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 known to the world by his pen name, John le Carré (1931-2020). Based on the author’s memoir of th…
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