Red Joan

Red Joan
Director
Trevor Nunn
Country
United kingdom
Year
2018
Genre
Biography, Drama, Thriller, Fiction
Scriptwriters
Lindsay Shapero
Cast
Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore
Production
Trademark Films

Storyline

The year is 2000 and Joan Stanley is living in contented retirement in suburbia at the turn of the millennium. Her tranquil life is suddenly disrupted when she's arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia. Cut to 1938 where Joan is a Cambridge physics student who falls for young communist Leo Galich and through him, begins to see the world in a new light. Working at a top-secret nuclear research facility during WWII, Joan comes to the realisation that the world is on the brink of mutually assured destruction. Confronted with an impossible question - what price would you pay for peace? - Joan must choose between betraying her country and loved ones or saving them. 

Festivals & Academy awards and others

San Sebastián International Film Festival 2018
Special Screnings
Toronto International Film Festival 2018
Galas

Releases

Spain (18 of April 2019)