The Spy in Black / L’espion noir

Tue 18 Feb
Films

Introduction by Moya McDonald, Events coordinator of Another Orkney Production + (recorded) special presentation by Bryony Dixon Silent Film Curator, British Film Institute/National Archive.

DRESS CODE: Optional fancy dress, the spectator with the Best Spy costume will be offered a bottle of wine!

 

During the First World War a German U-Boat Captain secretly lands ashore in Orkney close to the British Fleet’s base at Scapa Flow to rendezvous with a spy with information that could help him destroy the Grand Fleet. But is all as it seems? 

The film is the first Powell/Pressburger collaboration and based on a novel by Orkney author J. Storer Clouston

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