Norwood had to give up her studies in Latin and logic at a Southampton university. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. She began her spying career in the 1930s while working as a secretary for the Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association in London. She is now the founder of . In 1923, the British philosopher Bertrand Russell had already exposed the true nature of the Soviet dictatorship in his book, The Theory and Practice of Bolshevism. A member of the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), she regularly contributes toRogerEbert.com, Variety and Time Out New York, with bylines in Filmmaker Magazine, Film Journal International, Vulture, The Playlist and The Wrap, among other outlets. She is somewhat sympathetic to the left, or course. Joan's creepy nuclear scientist boss stumbles over the mental gymnastics required to compliment a woman on both her brains and her looks, calling her "not not a pretty face". It seemed as if she'd got away with it all - and there was a lot to get away with. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. High treason. Once on his way out of a pub he was seen dropping on the floor the file he had to hand over from the Foreign Office.. Snow forecast in Cambridge, Peterborough and Ely next week as temperatures plummet, The BBC weather forecast suggests "sleet showers" are on their way in Cambridgeshire - with temperatures set to hit lows of -3C, Death and funeral announcements across Cambridgeshire this week, We offer our deepest condolences to all those who have lost a loved one, Resident slams safety of 'pitch black' Cambs footbridge used by thousands daily, The resident said: "I told my (female) housemate not to walk over it". The pull of "Red Joan"an adaptation of Jennie Rooney's bestselling novel by screenwriter Lindsay Shapero oddly isn't in the search and reveal of an answer to this question. Stalin proposed to Hitler that Russia would formally enter and would commit to giving Hitler increased raw material aid to Hitler in exchange for German agreement to Soviet predominance over Finland and the addition of Soviet military bases in Bulgaria. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman, Paul L. Smith. Experts still debate how much she actually ended up helping the Soviet nuclear program. Hence, she didnt consider herself a spy, a point made by the fictional Joan in the movie. Running time: 1 hour, 41 . Norwood was another exception. Norwood's spying is credited with bringing the Soviet nuclear weapons program ahead by two years. In her eyes, helping Joseph Stalin and his successors was simply helping the Soviets do what the British Labour government did after Clement Attlee became prime minister in 1945. As secretary at the company storing the top-secret information on metals like uranium, the real Norwood was in the unique position to pass on information that, according to The Telegraph, helped the Russians develop their own atomic bomb two years ahead of schedule. She sharply questions how the grotesque staged confessions by lifelong revolutionaries to such monstrous crimes could possibly be true. Cambridge University to return Captain Cook's stolen Aboriginal spears to Australia. Born in 1912 she was brought up with Communists, Socialists and Leninists. Standing in her suburban front garden in 87-year-old pensioner Melita Norwood read from a crisp sheet of paper, intently looking down the lens of a camera as she confessed to being a top secret spy and betraying her country. Norwoods secret finally came out in September 1999, when The Times of London began to publish Andrews book serially. Her KGB file gave her a glowing review calling her "committed, reliable and disciplined agent, striving to be of the utmost assistance. The Russians had been struggling to find a solution to an issue they were having with creating the atomic bomb when Norwood found the answer. In a video difficult to watch, a Vallejo mother pleads for help as her son is dying from a gunshot wound outside of a hospital. In 1999 Judi Dench won an Oscar for her 6 minutes on screen in "Shakespeare In Love" and here she spends a little more time on screen in "Red Joan". British intelligence only confirmed she was a spy in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, when the former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin defected to the United Kingdom and turned over six trunks of archive information about Soviet spying. So when she passes a student rally for the Spanish Republic, she stops to listen. Norwood herself read a statement in her charming English garden explaining her actions to gathered press, as reported in a 1999 New York Times article following her shocking arrest at age 87. Spy Melita Norwood (far left) pictured with her mother Gertrude, sister Gerty and half-brother Alfred Brandt. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. After graduating, Joan works as a research assistant for nuclear scientist Max (Stephen . Rating: R, for brief sexuality/nudity. It was her appointment at the research facility that gave her the access she needed. For proof, look no further than . Norwood died in 2005, but people have remained fascinated with her story. Her lawyer son Nick (Ben Miles), who is stupefied and enraged by the revelations about his mother, in the end stands by her side, as her attorney, as she reads her statement. Dame Sally Davies, master of Trinity College, said it was the right decision to return the spears. They fall in love, while trying to raise money for Spain. While Judi Dench is flawless in bringing time-spanning depth to her melancholic character (with accidental nods to her infamous M persona), her contemporary segments are comparably bland by narrative design. Finally, Joan is able to convince him that her actions were motivated only by the desire to stop nuclear weapons being used again and he agrees to defend her, standing by her as she faces the tabloid journalists outside her home. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. [10][11], Red Joan grossed $1.6 million in the United States and Canada and $8.2 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $9.8 million. After the Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb in 1949, Max is arrested by Scotland Yard and is charged with espionage for the Soviet Union. The next four decades saw her hand over secrets and files under the name of Agent Hola. Joan's voice is almost a whisper. And yet. "It was a complete shock at the time. Her first public appearance was as a dancer with the Kelly Family in Prague. The initial catalyst to Joans awakening enters her life through an open window. Turns out, Joan didnt just pass on her countrys nuclear secrets in the innocent name of devotionin reality, she took up an ideological agenda entirely of her own after seeing the catastrophic atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 6. "She handed over a very large number of documents of a scientific and technical nature, and these found practical application.". The character of Joan Stanley is based on a real British spy, Melita Norwood, who was a hardline British Communist. The tabloid press goes into a "feeding frenzy" and vilifies her as a traitor, calling her "Red Joan". It's the year 2000. The real Melita was not reluctant. At firs the Security Service insisted her part in everything had been "marginal", it was a huge embarrassment. Watch David Norths remarks commemorating 25 years of the World Socialist Web Site and donate today. In the 10 years Say Yes to the Dress first aired on TLC, hundreds of brides have stopped into Kleinfeld's wedding dress shop on their way to the aisle. Joan and Max go to Australia, but return to Britain at some point. Sonya takes long, glamorous drags on her cigarette, always looking as though shes internally laughing at Joans naivet, while Leo alternates between passionate defenses of the Soviet Union and manipulating Joan with romantic gestures, calling her my little comrade.. Norwood continued to spy for the USSR until she retired in 1972, but she was not exposed until September of 1999, when former KGB agent Vasili Mitrokhin defected and arrived in London carrying a few thousand documents which included the names of spies who had been or were currently working in Great Britain on behalf of the Soviet Union. Four members of the 'Cambridge Five', graduates of Trinity College, Cambridge, who passed information from British Intelligence to the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s. Sonya (Tereza Srbova) and her cousin Leo (Tom Hughes), two German Jews, lead Joan into a world of dark-roomed film screenings and heated discussions of Soviet political purges, where, of course, only Joan is wise enough to question Soviet propaganda. Sonya flees Britain and Joan learns that Sonya's child was Leo's. The historian David Burke writes that the information [Norwood] supplied on the behavior of uranium metal at high temperatures permitted the Soviet Union to test an atomic bomb four years earlier than British and American intelligence thought possible. In his book, the British expert on espionage, Christopher Andrew, writes that Norwood was both the most important British female agent in KGB history and the longest serving of all Soviet spies in Britain. The KGB described her, Andrew writes, as a committed, reliable and disciplined agent, striving to be of the utmost assistance., Speaking to the press in front of her modest home, Norwood explained that she did not consider what she was doing as spying against her country, saying, I did what I did, not to make money, but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service. Red Joan: Directed by Trevor Nunn. She was a traitor to her country and had got away with it for decades. I thought perhaps what I had access to might be useful in helping Russia to keep abreast of Britain, America, and Germany. As a result, Max is released from prison. Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, John Cairncross, Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby were a group of disaffected undergraduates at Cambridge University who began spying for the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Cambridge City Council has approved a number of interactive public art works which will be included in the Timberworks development. While the elderly Joan Stanley protests that she wasnt a Communistthat joining Communist clubs and attending demonstrations was just the thing everyone was doing in universityMelita Norwood didnt need to be deceived and led astray by cosmopolitan, attractive Jews with questionable approaches to morality, because Norwood already believed in the cause. 23-year-old Damon "Dada" Ferguson was hit by gunfire on Vanessa . Hence, from the Russians point of view, the Nazi-Soviet alliance was meant to have been permanent. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Red Joan is based on a true story, but with the typical creative liberties movies so often take with real life. How did Norwood get away with it for so long? Joan contacts the Galiches to provide information about the British nuclear programme to the Soviet Union. The film had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018 and following this, IFC Films bought the US distribution rights to the film. They let her be, rather than risk exposing their counter-espionage methods. British spies, either in real life or film, do not come from the working or even middle classes, and they most certainly do not wear high heels although Guy Burgess might have been an exception. So when she passes a student rally for the Spanish Republic, she stops to listen. In 1967, she recruited a British civil servant 'Hunt' who passed on secrets about arms sales for nearly 15 years. She joins a . While the book and film's main change is the woman's name, there's also a heightened romance that the real Norwood, married until her husband's death according to The Guardian, would likely have found laughable as the reason for her daring work. 2023 A&E Television Networks, LLC. Red Joan is based on a novel of the same name, that was in turn Inspired by the real-life tale of Melita Norwood, a British civil servant who worked secretly for the KGB for 40 years, but whose past became public long after she'd retired. Alternately, the filmmakers could have played with the nature of memory, and of storytelling, and emphasized the gap between what Joan Stanley tells her interrogators and what she actually believes, thus creating a protagonist whom we, the audience, cannot precisely pin down. Expand. She had thought it was only with access to equal information could the superpowers be on balance with each other, and stopped from such disastrous actions in the future. It became clear later, when Pavel Sudoplatov of the Russian Ministry of State Security admitted it was 'sources' from Great Britain that helped with such problems, that it was Norwood who gave them the final puzzle piece. The film, directed by Trevor Nunn, formerly the artistic director for the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre in the UK, and, currently, the Theatre Royal Haymarket, utilizes flashbacks in which the elderly Joan (Judi Dench), under interrogation by detectives, begins discussing her youth, which is then depicted on screen. Dame Judy Dench stars as the KGB's longest serving British spy in 'Red Joan', Melita Norwood reads a statement in her garden, which she had lovingly tended, Judi Dench plays an older Joan Stanley, who is based on Norwood, Melita Norwood aged 87 when she faced the cameras, Sophie Cookson plays Joan Stanley, who is based on Norwood, The former British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association building in central London, Norwood read her statement, surrounded by the garden that she loved so much. She is quiet, studious, demure, inexperienced. Nunn swiftly takes us back in time to 1938, when Joan (a gracefully convincing Sophie Cookson) was a green but genius physics student at Cambridge, grabbing onto new inspirations and expanding her political horizon while growing into her sexuality. Some had happy endings and, for others, the . She continued to believe it through all the evidence of Stalins purges and show trials. Over 12 years Mitrokhin smuggled handwritten copies of the files from the archive and hid them in his country house outside Moscow. After all, Norwood had actually been investigated no less than seven times, she'd even been identified as a security risk in 1965. In the early years of World War II the British began a secret atomic research project in tandem with the Americans, called Tube Alloy. Her hordes of @generalhospitalabc followers will miss her. Her work continued after the war and there's no question what she handed over was useful to the Soviets. When the Independent Labour Party split in 1936, she joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. By subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our. Judi Dench, in a small but important role, is enormously effective as the haunted elderly woman who finds the strength to explain and defend herself. Sadly, NorwoodsWikipedia pageis more of a thrilling yarn than most ofRed Joan. The romance theme (and the casting) also serve to dilute the politics and make Joan likeable. "But I didnt immediately think of pinching it. The fact that theyre the only Jewish characters in the film and are the ones responsible for later cultivating Joan as a spy is even more unfortunate, because in real life, Melita Norwood was raised in a family withstrong ties to leftist politicsand seemed to be a committed Communist throughout her life. Author David Burke, who wrote a book about Melita's extraordinary life, was told by Norwood herself that it was she that approached them not the other way around. In fact, Melita Norwood was the Soviet Unions longest-serving British spy. Sarah? The authorities decided not to charge Norwood, citing her advanced age. While the real Melita Norwood was also staunchly anti-nuclear the same Times article notes anti-war and nuclear disarmament stickers in her windows for the onscreen version, Joan, it's the main reason she participates in spying, to balance the odds in the Russian-American arms race. This was especially so in Great Britain, where journalists Gareth Jones and Malcolm Muggeridge famously reported the truth about Stalins destruction of Ukraine and his responsibility for the subsequent famine. Red Sonja is probably the most famous "chick in chain mail.". The film portrays Norwood as a doddering old woman that when unmasked struggles to understand what she did wrong and what is happening to her. Then one sunlit spring morning there is a knock on . Norwood was a dedicated Communist from a Communist family: her father was the first person in Britain to translate Lenins writings into English. [13] A review in The Guardian said that the film "can't disguise its mediocrity",[14] and that the film "squanders its greatest acting asset". The film stars Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Ben Miles, Nina Sosanya, Tereza Srbova, and Judi Dench. . Melita Norwood was a great-grandmother when her espionage was finally revealed. Joan Stanley has a secret. But what Melita exactly did is up for debate. That love makes her vulnerable throughout the movie, as she is gradually and reluctantly drawn into divulging her countrys secrets. Burke, who later wrote The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage, noted that Norwood kept repeating I thought Id got away with it. Yet as Burke wrote, she actually did get away with it: even after her outing, the government still declined to prosecute her. The Mitrokhin papers paint detailed and often critical profiles of the five men, according to Russian researcher Svetlana Lokhova who has translated parts of the archive into English. But did she really commit those crimes and give away Britains secrets to the Russians as a KGB spy in the 1930s? She said her purpose had been to keep Russia abreast.". To Improve Teen Girls' Self-Esteem, Disrupt Their Instagram Feeds, Study Says, Paid Menstrual Leave, Reproductive Rights, and Safe Abortions Are More Than Just Feminist Pipe Dreams in Spain, They're Reality, Women in Rap Have Been Dominating TikTok, and The Platform is Finally Giving Them Their Flowers with New #WomenInHipHop Campaign. "When she became politically active in the 1930s, Russia was seen by many people as the only nation capable of defeating the Nazis. The film is based on the 2014 novel Red Joan, by author Jennie Rooney, which itself is a fictionalized account of Melita Norwood, a young woman whose work for the KGB wasn't discovered until decades later. Leo explains to her that Russia needs help, but that Britain and the United States wont share the military information Stalin is entitled to receive. Its through her close relationship with Leo, and his tendency towards grandiose statements about civilization, that Joan begins to understand the world as made up of people rather than rather than glorious buildings and monuments. She becomes involved with Socialists and radical politics through her friends, Sonya and Leo Galich, German Jews. Hall was such an unrepentant traitor that he didnt even have to be recruited. Joan is in the field for her love of science, and is propelled by her belief that it should be a pure and apolitical discipline, even as its being used to create nuclear weapons. Copyright 2023, Bulwark Media. High treason. Joan contacts the Galiches to provide information about the British nuclear programme to the Soviet Union. During that time she had handed over the country's secrets - willingly - to Russia, among them crucial information about the atomic bomb and its development. But she continued to send these secret files until the early 1970s, when she retired as a spy. After all, making Joan a scientist rather than an administrator arguably gives the character a greater sense of personal responsibility in the fate of the worldif she succeeds in making a breakthrough, its good for her career, but potentially catastrophic for the people on the other end of the little red launch button. Both Norwood and the Cambridge spies were caught because of the Mitrokhin archive. 'Red Joan' is a film based on a true story about KGB's longest-serving British spy Joan Stanley. In a pivotal turning point, Leo, with whom Joan has meanwhile become romantically involved, tries to enlist her in espionage activity. She is finally convinced that in order to ensure such horrors never happen again she must share Britains atomic research with the Soviets so that when they are able to manufacture a bomb, it will balance Americas sole ownership of one, and hence neither power would be willing to use it because both societies would be destroyed. The socialist. As secretary to a senior man at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, she had direct access to wartime research on the atomic bomb. The public were shocked when elderly woman Melita Norwood was uncovered as a KGB spy. "Whatever she may have done, I loved her. The pull of Red Joanan adaptation of Jennie Rooneys bestselling novel by screenwriter, The initial catalyst to Joans awakening enters her life through an open window. More precisely, it avoids many of them. Red Joan is a 2018 British spy drama film, directed by Trevor Nunn, from a screenplay by Lindsay Shapero. "My heartfelt condolences to her family, friends, and . In 1998, Halloffered the same rationale in CNNs series on the Cold War, saying. There are more than 30,000 files within the archive, which contain an array of material, including coded directions to secret weapon caches all over Europe. She'd potter around the streets after her morning cup of tea, out of her Che Guevera mug, and deliver copies of the Communist Party newspaper, The Morning Star. I thought perhaps what I had access to might be useful in helping Russia to keep abreast of Britain, America and Germany. She added that, in general, I do not agree with spying against one's country.. In 1996, the government decided that the information in the Mitrokhin papers should be available to the public, and handed them over to the Cambridge professor Christopher Andrew so he could write a book about them. The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy. These documents revealed Norwoods espionage, but British officials kept it secret because they didnt think there was enough evidence to prosecute. Red Sonja: Directed by Richard Fleischer. Norwood wasn't a physicist she was a drop out from Southampton University, where she only studied Latin and Logic for a year. She joined a ring working in the Woolwich Arsenal in 1937. In 1979, she and her husbandwho knew about her spying and disapprovedvisited Moscow so the Soviet Union could award her the Order of the Red Banner (she accepted the honorary award, but turned down the financial reward). Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not simply mark the ending of World War II. After the fall of the Soviet Union he travelled to Riga in 1992 dressed in scruffy clothes to avoid attention with a small number of documents in a suitcase, hidden under a pile of dirty clothes. 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