Watch: Red Joan 2018 123movies, Full Movie Online – English-born Joan Stanley (Dame Judi Dench), a Soviet and Communist Party sympathizer, becomes employed as a British government civil servant, and gets recruited by the K.G.B. in the mid 1930s. She successfully transfers nuclear bomb secrets to Soviet Russia, which enables them to keep up with the west in the development of atomic weapons, and remains undetected as a spy for over a half a century..
Plot: London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.
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Interesting but never really changes gear
The film as mentioned was extremely interesting but failed to ever really leave 2nd gear the performances was fine and I wasn’t bored but it just felt like it could have had another level to it and could really have exploded into action towards the end but continued to plod on at a mediocre pace. Reasonable but nothing special.
Be warned: although “inspired by a true story” it is very far from the truth.
Having researched the life of Melita Norwood – the real name of the fictional “Joan” played by Judi Dench in this film – it is obvious that this film has moved far from the truth of the deception that Joan carried out. Norwood came from a fervently communist/socialist household and NEVER went to Cambridge university. She studied Latin and logic at Southampton University for a year before dropping out. There was no love affair with a Russian sympathiser and she worked at British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association. She had already married a communist sympathiser before she was recruited by the NVKD because she was secretary to the research director at “Tube Alloys” a codename for atomic research facilities. She had ZERO understanding of the science and wouldn’t have known one end of a pipette from another but she did have access to the research papers which she meticulously photographed and handed over to her Russian handler. History has deemed her deceptions as more damaging to British security than the infamous Cambridge Five. Thus the film plays fast and loose with the real history and rather cynically tries to entice the viewer into sympathising with “Red Joan” (who didn’t have a barrister son in real life either). As a total fiction I would have given the film a guarded thumbs up as it is grips the imagination of the viewer but the “inspired by a true story” claim at the opening credits is very misleading. Joan/Melita was a traitor as much as Lord Haw Haw and she continued to support the Russian communist cause even when it was slaughtering millions of its own population.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Drama, History
Director Trevor Nunn
Writer Lindsay Shapero, Jennie Rooney
Actors Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore
Country United Kingdom
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Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras
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Negative Format 35 mm
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Printed Film Format 35 mm, Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)