英国人在外国 An Englishman Abroad

An enormously enjoyable comedy spun from a real-life story told to Alan Bennett by the actress Coral Browne, who had met the traitor Guy Burgess in Moscow on a cultural exchange visit in 1958. Out of this story, Bennett fashioned a screenplay which reflected on patriotism and treachery, drawing many parallels between Hamlet, which the Old Vic was performing on the trip, and Bur...