An Englishman Abroad

An Englishman Abroad

"An Englishman Abroad" is a 1983 BBC television drama, based on the true story of a chance meeting of an actress, Coral Browne, with Guy Burgess, one of the famous group of Cambridge spies who worked for the Soviet Union whilst with MI6.

Filmed in Glasgow and Dundee in the early 1980s, the setting is Moscow in 1958, to which Burgess had fled following MI6 detection of his treason. Burgess meets Browne in a theatre dressing room and charms her. Later on she is invited to his Moscow flat to measure him for some clothes that he would like ordered from his London tailors.

The characterisation of Burgess by Alan Bates has been held in high acclaim. This is the story of a very English Englishman trying to ignore his homesickness for the country he has betrayed while also trying to cope with post-Stalinist Russian life and convince himself that it was all worthwhile.

Coral Browne stars as herself. The production was written by Alan Bennett and directed by John Schlesinger. Both Browne and Bates were winners of the BAFTA awards for acting for their roles in this production.

References

Alan Bennett gives the date of Coral Browne's meeting with Burgess as 1958 in the Introduction to his "Single Spies", which contains the text of "An Englishman Abroad" as a stage play and the text of "A Question of Attribution" about Anthony Blunt. "Single Spies", London, Faber, 1989, ISBN 0-571-14105-6.

External links

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* [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/453093/index.html British Film Institute Screen Online]


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