Director: | Gordon Flemyng |
Genre: | Drama Thriller Espionage |
Starring: | Robert Lindsay Keith Carradine Simon Chandler Robert Lang Valentina Yakunina Arthur Brauss David de Keyser Stephen Holland Helen Rappaport Niall Toibin |
Producer: | Gordon Flemying Richard Everitt |
Based On: | Confessional by Jack Higgins |
Composer: | John Cacavas |
Num Series: | 1 |
Num Episodes: | 4 |
Company: | Granada Television |
Network: | ITV |
Language: | English |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Confessional is a British espionage thriller television miniseries starring Robert Lindsay, Keith Carradine, Simon Chandler, Robert Lang, Valentina Yakunina and Arthur Brauss. This series based on the 1985 spy novel of the same name by Jack Higgins and adapted for the television by James Mitchell and directed by Gordon Flemyng, it was produced by Granada Television for the ITV network and originally aired in four parts from 4 to 25 October 1989. The plot follows a rogue terrorist turned Soviet assassin, code named Cuchulain, trying to prevent a peace agreement between the parties involved in Northern Ireland.