Play for Today Traitor剧情介绍

Traitor (BBC, tx. 14/10/1971) was one of the first dramas to explore the lives of the spies Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, but is much more substantial than a mere roman-a-clef. Although Dennis Potters fictional KGB mole Adrian Harris (John Le Mesurier) does resemble Philby, his reduced circumstances in Moscow are closer to what happened to Maclean, while the dependence on drink also recalls Burgesss well-known alcoholism. The assassination, however, is clearly patterned after Philbys involvement in the 1945 Volkov affair.