Charlie, a jobbing young English actress, is accustomed to playing different roles. But when the mysterious, battle-scarred Joseph recruits her into the Israeli secret services, she enters the dangerous ‘theatre of the real’. As she acts out her part in an intricate, high-stakes plot to trap and kill a Palestinian terror cell striking civilian targets in Europe, it threatens to consume her - and she finds herself asking which side she's really on.
Diane Keaton as Charlie and Klaus Kinski as Kurtz, and a cameo from le Carré as a shadowy British government figure.
Nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture, 1985
'Two of the iron rules of moviemaking - that you can't make movies out of politics, and that serious intellectual themes gum up entertainment - evaporate before your eyes in "The Little Drummer Girl," a movie of ambitious scope that ingeniously tickles the mind. Like an enchanted escape artist, director George Roy Hill has pulled off that rarest of Hollywood feats - the thriller of ideas.'
