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    KGB agents Sergei Rublev and Vladimir Zelenski were sent undercover to England in 1966 and forgotten about until a cellar is discovered in the bowels of the Kremlin containing a mock-up of Carnaby Street-era London. Now the Russians want to find them.

    In Eccles (Manchester), a dusty radio in the attic of Albert Robinson (Warren Clarke) crackles into life. Albert leaves his wife and children behind, contacts a London banker by the name of Jeremy Coward (Nigel Havers) and travels south, unexpectedly accompanied by Morris, his daughter’s toy monkey.

    Having merged seamlessly into British life, Albert (formerly Vladimir) has become a happily married brewery worker and shop steward, while Jeremy (formerly Sergei) is a well-to-do City whiz-kid with a £300k salary who plays silly paintball-soldier games at weekends.

    Over the following days, Albert and Jeremy find themselves pursued not only by the KGB – including the ideologically pure and icily beautiful Major Nina Grishina (Joanna Kanska) – who are anxious to recover their ‘sleeping’ spies but also by the clueless agents of MI5 and the ultra-paranoid CIA.

    There were plenty of laughs – like the covert KGB film of the 1966 World Cup Final, which finally settled the question of Geoff Hurst’s controversial goal, the KGB controller who trained the pair (Michael Gough) and now spoke only in English catchphrases and recited the Peter Sellers’ version of A Hard Day’s Night, and the “secret room” beneath the Kremlin in which the agents were trained and which was now a cobwebby diorama of Swinging London, complete with Minis, miniskirts, bobbies and The Beatles.

    Jeremy Coward (Sergei Rublev)
    Nigel Havers
    Albert Robinson (Vladimir Zelenski)
    Warren Clarke
    Victor Chekhov
    David Calder
    Andrei Zorin
    Michael Gough
    Major Nina Grishina
    Joanna Kanska
    Oleg Petrovsk
    Christopher Rozycki
    Igor Kostov
    Richard Huw
    K14 
    Alan David
    George Wetherby
    William Chubb
    Bill Sullivan
    Angus MacInnes
    Karl Richfield
    Ricco Ross
    Sandra Robinson
    Annie Hulley
    Alison
    Candida Gubbins
    Serena
    Jane Nash
    Sharon Robinson
    Tara Moohan
    Elsie
    Barbara Young
    Doctor
    Andrzej Borkowski
    Gary Robinson
    Ian Taylor
    Wayne Robinson
    Spencer Ridgway
    Barrington Cabot
    Paul Maxwell
    Roger Stanley
    James Smith
    Bob Riley
    John Flanagan
    Donald
    Andrew McCulloch
    Rev. David Bancroft
    Richard Durden

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