About
A British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.
Cast
Kevin McNally
as Johnny Donoghue
Bernard Hepton
as Henry Carter
James Faulkner
as Charles Mawby
Hans Caninenberg
as Professor Guttman
Brigitte Karner
as Erica Guttman
Stephan Meyer-Kohlhoff
as Willi Guttmann
Donald Pickering
as Permanent Undersecretary
Robert Lang
as Deputy Undersecretary
Bert Parnaby
as Adam Percy
Claus-Peter Seifert
as Ulf Becker
Hans Schödel
as Heini Schalke
Katharina Abt
as Jutte Hamburg
Marion Kracht
as Renate
Edward Clayton
as Charlie Davies
Judy Holt
as Lizzie Forsyth
Episodes
Miniseries
Part 1
British intelligence must convince Russian scientist Wilhelm Guttmann to come to the United Kingdom, but with his son in their hands, former soldier Johnny Donoghue is tasked with securing his cooperation amid Cold War tensions.
Part 2
Donoghue goes undercover in Berlin to make contact with Guttmann and persuade him to defect, navigating tense East German surveillance and diplomatic complications between the British and West Germans.
Part 3
Abandoned in East Germany as the operation unravels, Donoghue charges on with a desperate plan to smuggle Guttmann and his daughter across the border into West Germany.
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