Taken from the bestselling book by Robert Littell, with a teleplay by ken Nolan The Company is a miniseries about the activities of the CIA during the Cold War. Taken from the bestselling book by Robert Littell, with a teleplay by ken Nolan The Company is a miniseries about the activities of the CIA during the Cold War.
The Company follows the Cold War intelligence battle between the CIA and the KGB from the end of World War II to the fall of the Soviet Union.
The protagonist is Jack McCauliffe (Chris O'Donnell), an idealistic and naive young man who was recruited from Yale by his athletics coach.
Jack begins his career stationed in Berlin to work with Harvey Torriti (Alfred Molina), who is codenamed "the Sorcerer."
Torriti takes Jack under his wing, and the two keep in touch even after Jack's career takes him from Berlin. A string of failed missions from Berlin to the Bay of Pigs Invasion forces Jack to conclude that the CIA has been severely penetrated by a KGB mole.
The miniseries centres on the efforts of Jack and Harvey, along with the increasingly paranoid counterintelligence chief James Angleton (Michael Keaton), to expose and destroy the mole. Angleton becomes so paranoid he is forced to retire when he argues that evidence exculpating a suspected mole was actually incriminating evidence because it was too easily discovered.
The Cast
# Chris O'Donnell as Jack McAuliffe
# Michael Keaton as James Jesus Angleton
# Alfred Molina as Harvey Torriti/The Sorcerer
# Rory Cochrane as Yevgeny Tsipin
# Alessandro Nivola as Leo Kritzky
# Natascha McElhone as Elizabet Nemeth