The Company (miniseries)
| The Company | |
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DVD cover for The Company
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| Created by | Robert Littell |
| Developed by | Ken Nolan |
| Directed by | Mikael Salomon |
| Starring |
Chris O'Donnell Alfred Molina Michael Keaton Alessandro Nivola Rory Cochrane Tom Hollander Alexandra Maria Lara Natascha McElhone Raoul Bova Erika Marozsán Mišel Matičević |
| Composer(s) | Jeff Beal |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Ridley Scott John Calley |
| Running time | 286 Mins |
| Release | |
| Original network | TNT |
| Original release | August 5 – August 19, 2007 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Company is a three-part serial about the activities of the CIA during the Cold War. It was based on the best-selling novel by Robert Littell. The teleplay adaptation was written by Ken Nolan.
In 1950, best friends Jack McAuliffe, Leo Kritzky, and Yevgeny Tsipin graduate from Yale and prepare to go their separate ways; Jack and Leo are recruited to by the CIA by Frank "The Wizard" Wisner, while Yevgeny goes home to Moscow, where he is recruited into the KGB by spymaster Starik while falling in love with Azalia Ivanova.
In 1955, Jack has been assigned to Harvey "The Sorcerer" Torriti at a CIA station in Soviet Berlin, where East German defector Vishnevsky offers the identity of a mole in MI6 for safe passage to the West. At CIA headquarters in Washington, counterintelligence chief James Jesus "Mother" Angleton begins Vishnevsky's exfiltration, telling his best friend and MI6 liaison Adrian Philby. The KGB and Berlin police show up to the exfiltration instead of Vishnevsky; Torriti and Jack escape, surmising the blown defection is due to the mole.
Angleton believes the fault lies with Berlin, infuriating Torriti, who aims to expose the mole by feeding him a barium meal; Torriti gives privileged information to a trusted contact in MI6, forcing the mole to protect himself by killing Torriti. Meanwhile, Jack is falling in love with his first asset, Lili, who provides information from an important scientist. Jack and Torriti are ambushed at a meeting, proving that the barium meal worked, so Torriti prepares another.
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