The Company

In 1950, Harvard and Yale friends Jack McCauliffe, Leo Kritzky and Yevgeny Tsipin decide to join the hottest 'game' of their age: Cold War espionage. It's the start of recruitment for competing secret services, whose greatest feat is double- or triple-crossing or finding out the adversary doing so. As cover requires, they enjoy the luxury society circuit and have love - and family lives. But the game spares nobody, not even the trio-mates.

Suspecting Soviet mole Parcifal compromises his dirty CIA-Mossad deals, Harvey 'the Sorcerer' plans a dangerous trap with MI-6's Elihu. So 'Jacko' McAuliff pumps ballerina lover Lili for more information and refuses a bribe for Borisov.

Budapest, 1956. Jacko's mission is to convince the underground insurgent to wait at least 18 months before they rise against the Stalinist regime, in vain. Jack stands by their leader, poet Arpad Zelk, and his English-born wife, but the Hungarian secret police AVH sees through his lies under torture. In Washington, president Eisenhower refuses flat-out to risk NATO blood.