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