Dec 20, 2017
15 min
Full-HD

The Defector (2017)

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.

Category

History Mystery Thriller

Country

Australia

Companies

Sean Taylor

Harold Holt

Malcolm Kennard

Charles Forwell

Lech Mackiewicz

Ivan Petrov

Josef Ber

Teddy Knox

Aaron Scully

David Bondurant

Renaud Jadin

Tom Lancaster

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