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BBC Quality Films: (1) COPENHAGEN & (2) A PERFECT SPY
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Import from The Netherlands, which plays in English. COPENHAGEN: Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning drama Copenhagen stars Stephen Rea (The Crying Game, Michael Collins, End of the Affair), Daniel Craig (Road To Perdition, Lara Croft:Tomb Raider) and Francesca Annis (Reckless, Wives and Daughters). Recent Tony nominee Howard Davies (Private Lives) adapts and directs Frayn's original play. Inspired by actual events which have baffled and intrigued historians for more than 50 years, Copenhagen revolves around a 1941 meeting between two brilliant physicists, Niels Bohr of Denmark (Stephen Rea) and Germany's Werner Heisenberg (Daniel Craig), longtime friends whose work together opened the way to the atomic bomb, but who are now on opposite sides of World War II. Heisenberg makes a covert trip at great risk to see Bohr and his wife Margrethe (Francesca Annis) in Copenhagen, but the meeting ends in disaster. Why did Heisenberg go to Denmark, and what did the two men say to each other? What happened during this pivotal meeting that was a defining moment in the modern nuclear age?
A PERFECT SPY: A Perfect Spy traces the rise and fall of Magnus Pym and his career through intelligence. From chance meetings with people will be important to him in the future to a life in Czechoslovakia, Washington and finally on the run in England Pym weaves his way through the complicated world of espionage. Where no-one is safe from betrayal, not even his father. Synopsis: Top British Spy Magnus Pym initiates a massive man hunt when he goes missing. He's desperate to uncover who he really is, and must find himself before his hunters do...
The power of uncertainty.
Review date: 2008-09-26 Rating: 10 out of 10
A lovely edition for the brilliant adaptation of Frayn's masterpiece Copenhagen, a study into the lives and morals of physicists Heisenberg and Bohr. The enclosed setting, the repeated musical score and the brilliant performances by its tight cast breathe life into the moral uncertainties of History.
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Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Peter Egan
Stephen Rea
Daniel Craig
Ray McAnally
Director(s):
Recording label: BBC
Manufacturer: BBC
EAN: 8717344730723
Binding: DVD
Format: PAL,
Number of discs: 3
Region code: 2
Running time: 475 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)