External Affairs | |
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Genre | drama |
Based on |
The Stillborn Lover by Timothy Findley |
Written by | Jeremy Hole |
Directed by | Peter Moss |
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Production | |
Running time | 90 min. |
Production company(s) | Shaftesbury Films |
Release | |
Original network | CBC Television |
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External Affairs is a Canadian television film, which aired on CBC Television in 1999.
An adaptation of Timothy Findley's play The Stillborn Lover, the film stars Victor Garber as Henry Raymond, a Canadian diplomat in Moscow who is summoned back to Ottawa for questioning by Michael Riordan (Kenneth Welsh), the Minister of External Affairs, after he is implicated in the murder of a young man. The investigation reveals secrets that threaten to destroy both men's careers.