Name: Special screening: The Spy in Black / L’espion noir
Start: 2025-02-18T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-18T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Institut Français d'Écosse

$Special screening: The Spy in Black \/ L\u2019espion noir$

Introduction by Moya McDonald Events coordinator of Another Orkney Production + (recorded) special presentation by Bryony Dixon Silent Film Curator British Film Institute/National Archive.

DRESS CODE: Optional fancy dress the spectator with the Best Spy costume will be offered a bottle of wine!

During the First World War a German U-Boat Captain secretly lands ashore in Orkney close to the British Fleet’s base at Scapa Flow to rendezvous with a spy with information that could help him destroy the Grand Fleet. But is all as it seems?

The film is the first Powell/Pressburger collaboration and based on a novel by Orkney author J. Storer Clouston