Guy Burgess and Donald
Maclean were British diplomats who disappeared in 1951
and surfaced in Moscow in 1956. There was speculation
that Harold “Kim” Philby, head of the Soviet
section of the British Secret Intelligence Service,
was the “third man” who alerted them before
they could be arrested for espionage. A Different Loyalty,
through the eyes of Philby’s wife (Sharon Stone),
depicts the events surrounding Philby’s own defection.
Formerly the wife of his best friend, Philby seduced
and then married Eleanor. Then one night her life is
shattered when Kim fails to turn up to a drinks party
in Beirut and has seemingly vanished from the face of
the earth …
Later when he makes contact from Moscow,
and still desperately in love with him, she defies threats
from the US government and risks all to go and visit
him. He may now be a KGB general, but, to Eleanor, he
has become a diminished man. A Different Loyalty is
a gripping, powerful drama, part thriller, part love
story, part impossible moral dilemma.
Starring
Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Casino, Sphere)
Rupert Everett (Another Country, My Best Friend’s
Wedding, Ideal Husband)
Director
Marek Kanievska (Another Country, Less Than Zero)
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