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Special screening: The Spy in Black / L’espion noir

A special screening of the 1939 film 'The Spy in Black' is screening at the Institut français d'Ecosse on Tuesday 18th February!

Special screening: The Spy in Black / L’espion noir

About Special screening: The Spy in Black / L’espion noir

18th February 2025
6pm
Institut francais d Ecosse
Institut français d'Ecosse West Parliament Square, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 1RF
£5 Full Price / Free for French Institute members
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Introduction by Moya McDonald, Events coordinator of Another Orkney Production + (recorded) special presentation by Bryony Dixon Silent Film Curator, British Film Institute/National Archive.

DRESS CODE: Optional fancy dress, the spectator with the Best Spy costume will be offered a bottle of wine!

During the First World War a German U-Boat Captain secretly lands ashore in Orkney close to the British Fleet’s base at Scapa Flow to rendezvous with a spy with information that could help him destroy the Grand Fleet. But is all as it seems?

The film is the first Powell/Pressburger collaboration and based on a novel by Orkney author J. Storer Clouston.

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