Continuing our coverage of the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, check out the first clip for
Judi Dench's period set drama
RED JOAN in which she plays Joan Stanley, KGB’s longest serving spy in Britain.
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EVERYONE HAS THEIR REASONS Judi Dench plays her as a retired scientist living in today's London who gets arrested for crimes done decades ago.
Sophie Cookson plays her younger version back in 1938, when she was a new student at Cambridge, where a
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| Sophia Cookson plays Joan Stanley in her youth |
chance encounter with Sonya (
TerezaSrbova), an alluring fellow student, draws her into a circle of politicized youths supporting the Republicans in Spain and the Soviet dream of a classless society. Joan falls for Sonya’s brother
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| Tom Hughes leads the male part of the cast |
Leo (
Tom Hughes), a dashing idealist in search of adventure. When the Second World War begins, Joan goes to work for Max (
Stephen Campbell Moore) at a top-secret British intelligence project of great interest to Leo.
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| Red Joan will premiere at Toronto Film Festival next week |
Joan is soon facing several difficult choices: between national loyalties, between belief systems, between men. Somewhere in all this, she will also discover her tremendous potential
