Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011
Cold War espionage film directed by
Tomas Alfredson. The screenplay was written by
Bridget O'Connor and
Peter Straughan, based on
John le Carré's 1974 novel
of the same name. The film, starring
Gary Oldman as
George Smiley, along with
Colin Firth,
Tom Hardy,
John Hurt,
Toby Jones,
Mark Strong,
Benedict Cumberbatch, and
Ciarán Hinds, is set in London in the early 1970s and follows the hunt for a
Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service.