Red Joan
Synopsis
“I was a shadow in a man’s world. Invisible…but in the end, powerful.”
In a quiet English village, Joan Stanley (Academy Award® winner Dame Judi Dench) lives a peaceful retirement - until MI5 arrests her, exposing one of the most extraordinary spies in history.
Decades earlier at Cambridge, young Joan (Sophie Cookson), a shy physics student, falls for a charismatic Russian, Leo, whose radical ideals awaken her political conscience. Through him, she begins to see that the world is on a knife-edge and perhaps must be saved from itself in the race to military supremacy.
Post-war and working at a top-secret nuclear research facility, Joan is confronted with a choice: Would you betray your country and your loved ones, if it meant saving them?
Inspired by an extraordinary true story, Red Joan is the taut and emotional discovery of one woman’s sacrifice in the face of incredible circumstances. A woman to whom we perhaps all owe our freedom.
Director
Sir Trevor Nunn
Cast
Dame Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Tom Hughes, Stephen Campbell Moore