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Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.


“To change the world, she betrayed her country”
London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.

Judi Dench
Joan Elizabeth Stanley

Sophie Cookson
Young Joan Elizabeth Stanley

Tom Hughes
Leo Galich

Tereza Srbova
Sonya Galich

Stephen Campbell Moore
Max

Ben Miles
Nick

Nina Sosanya
Ms. Hart

Laurence Spellman
Mr Adams

Nicola Sloane
Joan's Neighbor
Freddie Gaminara
William
Red Joan is a thriller, history film released in 2018 exploring themes of london, england, based on novel or book, atomic bomb, spy, cold war, world war ii. Directed by Trevor Nunn, it stars Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Tom Hughes. London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.
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