Sleepers (1991)★ 8.4/10
- Comedy
- Drama
Directed by: Geoffrey Sax
Written by: John Flanagan, Andrew McCulloch
During glasnost, the Kremlin finds two Soviet agents, sent to England undercover in 1965, are missing. A Russian agent sent to London to locate them gets caught up in CIA, KGB, and MI-5 intrigues as the assimilated agents evade detection.
- Original title
- Sleepers
- Storyline
- Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been "lost." A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counter-plots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.
- Rating
- 8.4 / 10 · 487
- Companies
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Cinema Verity, Masterpiece Theatre, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- Release dates
- GB April 10, 1991
- NL June 19, 1992
- DE January 7, 1995
- FR January 7, 1995