An Englishman Abroad. 1983

A 60 minute small gem of a drama that was based on a real incident when the great actress Coral Browne was in Moscow in 1958 performing Hamlet and met the notorious British spy Guy Burgess beautifully acted by Alan Bates. They spent a melancholy meager afternoon in his dreary apartment lunching on tomatoes and grapefruit listening over and over to a Jack Buchanan recording and measuring Burgess for a suit that he wanted Browne to have made for him back in London. Directed by John Schlesinger from the play by Alan Bennett. Perfection.