Restless (2012 miniseries)
| Restless | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | William Boyd |
| Directed by | Edward Hall |
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| Composer(s) | Lorne Balfe |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 2 |
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| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Endor Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | 16:9 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 27 December – 28 December 2012 |
Restless is a 2012 British TV adaptation of William Boyd's espionage novel Restless (2006). Directed by Edward Hall, the film features Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling. The two parts first aired on 27 and 28 December 2012 on BBC One.
The first episode opens in the 1970s with Ruth Gilmartin, a PhD student at St Johns College, Cambridge, driving with her young son to visit her mother in her country cottage. When she arrives her mother, Sally Gilmartin, is nervous and believes that men are watching her from the nearby woods. Ruth mocks her mother's fears. Sally then hands her a notebook with the name "Eva Delectorskaya" on the front, and informs her daughter that this is her real name.
The action then moves to Paris in 1939. Eva, as a young woman, is shown with her brother. The family has recently arrived in Paris from their native Russia. After leaving Eva, her brother is kicked to death in the street by a gang of men. After the funeral, Eva is approached by an Englishman whom she had earlier seen talking to her brother. He introduces himself as Lucas Romer and gives Eva a business card for the company "AAS Ltd".
Later Eva returns to the flat she shares with her father and finds Lucas there. Lucas tells her that he is a British spy and her brother was working for him. He tells Eva that war is imminent and that he wants her to become a spy like her brother. Eva is initially reluctant but then agrees. She is taken to Scotland for training at a country house, where she proves herself extremely capable at memory tests and a survival exercise.
During this period war breaks out. After her training Lucas tells her that they will be working in Belgium. In Ostend Eva is part of a team fabricating fake news stories to be picked up by the Germans. She is then selected to observe an operation in the fictitious Dutch border town of Preslo, the operation goes wrong and results in the death of a Dutch Intelligence Officer and the capture of SIS officers by the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD-Security Service). This was based on the true events of the Venlo Incident.
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