To love a stranger is easy. To kill a lover is not.
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an inhospitable, sparsely inhabited island off the coast of northern Scotland.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- character-ledplot-driven
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- Donald SutherlandFaber
- Kate NelliganLucy
- Ian BannenGodliman
- Christopher CazenoveDavid
- Faith BrookLucy's Mother
- Barbara EwingMrs. Garden
- David HaymanCanter
- Alex McCrindleTom
- Philip Martin BrownBilly Parkin
- Stephen MacKennaLieutenant
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- Richard MarquandDirector
- Stanley MannScreenplay
- Ken FollettNovel
- Alan HumeDirector of Photography
- Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
- Sean BartonEditor
- Stephen J. FriedmanProducer
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