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The Little Drummer Girl

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An actress enters the world of espionage in this adaptation of John le Carre's novel.

Seduction, betrayal and spies. A fiery actress meets a mysterious stranger, and is caught up in a deadly espionage sting. With Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsgard.

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The Little Drummer Girl: Series 1

Florence Pugh

Alexander Skarsgard

Michael Shannon

Michael Moshonov

Amir Khoury

Alexander Beyer

Simona Brown

Gennady Fleisher

Vitali Friedland

Charif Ghattas

Tom Hanson

Edward Davis

Clare Holman

Max Irons

Daniel Litman

Bethany Muir

Alessandro Piavani

Kate Sumpter

Shane Attwooll

Shani Erez

Micah Gordon

Roee Adar

Iben Akerlie

Shlomo Barabba

Park Chan-wook

Laura Hastings-Smith

Simon Cornwell

Stephen Cornwell

Arthur Wang

Joseph Tsai

John Le Carre

Chan-wook Park

Wonjo Jeong

Michael Lesslie

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The Little Drummer Girl: Series 1: Episode 1

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Episode 1

BBC One - The Little Drummer Girl, Series 1, Episode 1

A fiery and brilliant actress is drawn into a dangerous international espionage operation.

Drama series. Charlie, a fiery and brilliant young actress, meets a mysterious stranger on the beach in Greece, and he draws her into an international espionage operation.

Germany, 1979. When a bomb goes off in the diplomatic quarter of Bonn, senior Israeli intelligence agent Martin Kurtz flies in to investigate. A series of similarly deadly attacks targeting prominent Jewish figures across Europe have been carried out in recent weeks, and Kurtz now believes there is a Palestinian revolutionary at the heart of this pattern. Kurtz sets in motion a brilliant and elaborate plan to catch the kingpin, Khalil.

Meanwhile in London, passionate young actress Charlie is treading the boards of pub theatres and struggling to land a breakthrough part. She drifts from one bad relationship to another, unable to find her purpose in life. When an anonymous benefactor sends Charlie and her theatre troupe on a rehearsal jaunt to Greece, she feels renewed vigour. But a working holiday soon becomes a journey of discovery when she encounters a mysterious stranger on the beach.

While Kurtz makes inroads into the network responsible for the bombing in Germany, the tangled threads of the stories weave their way together until Charlie finds herself at the centre of Kurtz's international espionage operation.

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