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He rebelled against his family. He outraged his friends. Finally he betrayed his country. Rupert Everett turns in an electric performance as Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1940's, who eventually defected to Russia in 1951. Read more

Starring	Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Anna Massey, Michael Jenn
Director	Marek Kanievska
Genres	Drama, Romance

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- Upper-crust militarism, arrogance, sadism and homosexuality rolled up in a package which pleased the West End theatre crowds but seems faintly absurd on film. Not much of a recruiting poster for Eton.
- 33840
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43
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  Excellent
  
  The above 'official' critique is wrong - thats a completely different film... To the film - i remember this film from childhood. In the opening shots of... read more »
  
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  - Ed
  - Manchester
  - 27 May 2005 at 19:13
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- - 0
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  Neglected classic
  
  An exploration of why Guy Burgess (thinly disguised here as 'Guy Bennett') became a 'traitor' - spying for the Soviets while an MI5 agent. The ... read more »
  
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- - Electricvic
  - 66 reviews
  - London
  - 29 Feb 2012 at 22:45
- - 0
  - 0
  Alright, not especially good
  
  Good cast. Story typical of public school life, no real surprise there then. Mediocre film. If you like Rupert Everett and Colin Firth then you may like this.
  
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- - a customer
  - 25 Jun 2011 at 22:42
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  - 3
  So slow it practically stopped
  
  This film never really got started for me. Too much time spent on the early years. I gave up due to chronic boredom
  
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  - Bristol
  - 18 Feb 2011 at 07:00
- - 6
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  Yawn - a customer from London
  
  What sort of tit hires a film - presumably having some idea of its content - and than writes a facile review such as the above reviewer did? The idea of ... read more »
  
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- - Lelboy
  - 269 reviews
  - East London
  - 27 Sep 2010 at 17:05
- - 3
  - 0
  Old School
  
  If you like 'A Room with a View' style films this is for you. Thoroughly enjoyed it but is slow. Both Colin Firth and Rupert Everett are great.
  
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- - patuche
  - 9 reviews
  - Bristol, UK
  - 02 Sep 2010 at 16:15
- - 3
  - 0
  Burgess explained?
  
  An impressively mounted (and obviously carefully researched) film version of Julian Mitchell's play attempting to explain how the playing fields of Eton ... read more »
  
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  - Sussex
  - 06 Jun 2010 at 21:21
- - 0
  - 2
  Another Country
  
  A pretentious piece of writing - Rupert Everett way too old to play the part of a schoolby!
  
  Absolutely hated it!!
  
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  - Hampshire
  - 05 Mar 2010 at 23:18
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  - 2
  Indifferent
  
  I was quite disappointed and almost fell asleep. There isn't much of a plot and it was very difficult to sympathise with these characters. Perhaps I would ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 09 Aug 2009 at 13:26
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  - 4
  SNOOZzzzzzzzzzzze!
  
  I thought this was going to be good, but unfortunately it was totally boring; I couldn't follow the plot, and it virtually sent me to sleep. Absolute ... read more »
  
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  - Truro, England
  - 16 Jul 2009 at 15:37
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  - 1
  Another country
  
  I was expecting something totally different and I was really shocked by level of raw militarism throughout the film. being an educator, it helps me understand ... read more »
  
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- - Antigone
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  - London
  - 08 Jul 2009 at 20:54
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- - 49
  - 2
  Excellent
  
  The above 'official' critique is wrong - thats a completely different film... To the film - i remember this film from childhood. In the opening shots of... read more »
  
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- 108445
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Ed
  - Manchester
  - 27 May 2005 at 19:13
- - 13
  - 0
  Excellent stuff
  
  Bound to effect you on some level. Saw this twenty odd years ago and again recently and it is well worth the wait if you are thinking of putting it on your list... read more »
  
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- - jennifer claire
  - Ireland
  - 19 Apr 2007 at 22:53
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  Top Film
  
  First saw this over 20 years ago, & a few times since.
  
  Stick with it because this is a top film, well played & with atmosphere.
  
  ... read more »
  
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  - Birmingham
  - 21 Aug 2007 at 12:30
- - 9
  - 0
  Interesting and evocative of an era
  
  This gave an insight into the public school sytem and it's effects on a gay man. there were a lots of things unsaid in which you were left to assume what ... read more »
  
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- - Treetops
  - 23 reviews
  - Wirral
  - 16 Apr 2008 at 13:45
- - 6
  - 1
  Yawn - a customer from London
  
  What sort of tit hires a film - presumably having some idea of its content - and than writes a facile review such as the above reviewer did? The idea of ... read more »
  
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- - Lelboy
  - 269 reviews
  - East London
  - 27 Sep 2010 at 17:05
- - 6
  - 2
  Yawn
  
  Yet another English Period Drama in which they confront yet again their homosexual angst.....How many more times do we have the hear about all this?
  
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  - LONDON
  - 13 May 2008 at 21:33
- - 5
  - 1
  rare and captivating
  
  This film knocked me sideways, partly because I wasn't exactly sure what I was expecting. Paul Shrader's analysis of a well-respected senior senator&#... read more »
  
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- - Great Expectations
  - Leeds, West Yorkshire
  - 18 Apr 2008 at 18:32
- - 4
  - 0
  Boring
  
  Turned this off after half an hour, I give it a go but the plot was non existent, the identitys of the charachters confusing and nothing major happened to ... read more »
  
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- - ZZCop
  - 10 reviews
  - Altrincham
  - 21 Aug 2008 at 22:33
- - 3
  - 0
  emotional truth
  
  I saw this first as a play in the west end: once with Rupert Everett as Guy and Kenneth Branagh as Judd (excellent) and once with Colin Firth as Guy, where it ... read more »
  
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  - Bristol
  - 09 Sep 2008 at 17:10
- - 3
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  Burgess explained?
  
  An impressively mounted (and obviously carefully researched) film version of Julian Mitchell's play attempting to explain how the playing fields of Eton ... read more »
  
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- 896642
- - a customer
  - Sussex
  - 06 Jun 2010 at 21:21

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Critics' reviews
- Upper-crust militarism, arrogance, sadism and homosexuality rolled up in a package which pleased the West End theatre crowds but seems faintly absurd on film. Not much of a recruiting poster for Eton.
- 33840
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43
- In Julian Mitchell's adaptation of his own award-winning play (a naive and romanticised exploration of how ruling-class... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:17

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  He rebelled against his family. He outraged his friends. Finally he betrayed his country. Rupert Everett turns in an electric performance as Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1940's, who eventually defected to Russia in 1951....