History ·Mystery ·Thriller · Australia · 2017 · 15m

The Defector

Director

Cast

Sean Taylor as Harold Holt Malcolm Kennard as Charles Forwell Lech Mackiewicz as Ivan Petrov Josef Ber as Teddy Knox Aaron Scully as David Bondurant Renaud Jadin as Tom Lancaster

Crew

Scott Mannion — Writer

Synopsis

1967, the height of the Red Scare. Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt is embroiled in a power struggle after discovering his spymaster has illegally investigated and exposed Red sympathisers embedded within Holt's administration.

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