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Sequel to Smiley's People in film or book?

posted 15 years ago by fanaticita
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What happened next to Karla, the daughter, and her mother?

[–] finnegansword 15 years ago

Good question lady! And how about Gregoriev? Did he get the uniform that he wanted? Did he dump Gregorieva and become a free citizen in the West? Somehow, I doubt it.....

[–] fanaticita 15 years ago

Ahhhh, too bad. I really loved this film, and didn't want it to end! It didn't bother me that it was slow, it really wasn't, it was just thorough and intense. Alec Guiness said more in a twist of the lip or a raise of the eyebrow than a lot of actors say in pages of script. There are some actors who are very, very good but few and far in between.

[–] wizard1957 15 years ago

Karla had had the mother of his daughter killed for anti-social behavior.

[–] finnegansword 15 years ago

Yes, I remember Connie Sachs said it was his idea of a marital tiff when George Smiley went to visit her in Oxfordshire. A good line........

[–] fanaticita 11 years ago

Wait. . . .wasn't Alexandra's mother Madame Ostrakova (sp?)???? I don't remember her being killed in the film.

[–] dylanw1 11 years ago

Ostrakova’s real daughter, Alexandra, never appears. Her identity, including all of the immigration documents that Ostrakova filed with the French authorities, is used as a false background (or “legend,” to use Le Carré’s terminology) for Karla’s daughter, Tatiana, later interned at the Swiss clinic.

The identity of Tatiana’s mother, like Karla’s, is apparently lost to the mists of Soviet Officialdom.

Karla himself does not appear in any of Le Carré’s later books, although, in The Secret Pilgrim, there is a brief mention that it was Smiley who debriefed him after his defection.

[–] fanaticita 11 years ago

Wow, and I thought I was paying attention.. .. ..jeez, you can't even blink when watching a La Carre film.