SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg

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SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg

2014

0h 9m

4.0(1 votes)

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4 members

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John le Carré

Self

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Anne Harms

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Willem Dafoe

(archive footage)

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Григорий Добрыгин

(archive footage)

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