A DIFFERENT LOYALTY

Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean were British Diplomats who disappeared in 1951 and surfaced in Moscow in 1956. There was speculation that Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, (Rupert Everett) head of the Soviet section of the British Secret Service, was the ‘third man’ who alerted them to escape before they could be arrested for espionage. ‘A Different Loyalty’, seen through the eyes of Philby’s wife Eleanor, (Sharon Stone) depicts the events surrounding Philby’s own defection. Formerly the wife of his best friend,  Philby seduced and then married Eleanor. Then one night her life is shattered when Kim fails to turn up to a drinks party in Beirut and has seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. Later when he makes contact from Moscow, and still desperately in love with him, she defies threats from the US government and risks all to go and visit him.  Although he is now a KGB general, to Eleanor he has become a diminished man. A ‘Different Loyalty’ is a griping, powerful drama. part thriller, part love story, part impossible moral dilemma.

Starring;

Sharon Stone; Basic Instincts, Casino, Sphere.

Rupert Everett; Another Country, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Ideal Husband.

Director; Marek Kanievska; Another Country, Less Than Zero.