Watch The First Trailer For RED JOAN Starring Judi Dench

Here’s your first look at Oscar-winner Judi Dench in RED JOAN. The film is inspired by the True Story of the Granny Spy Melita Norwood.

Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information—including details on the building of the atomic bomb—to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging deep-seated sexism; her tumultuous love affair with a dashing political radical (Tom Hughes); and the devastation of World War II, which inspired her to risk everything in pursuit of peace.

Based on a sensational true story, Red Joan vividly brings to life the conflicts—between patriotism and idealism, love and duty, courage and betrayal—of a woman who spent a lifetime being underestimated while quietly changing the course of history. Sophie Cookson co-stars.

The film was screened at previous film festivals and was an Official Selection of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, an Official Selection of the 2018 Zurich Film Festival and an Official Selection of the 2018 Sebastian Film Festival.

Later this year Dame Judi Dench can be seen in Kenneth Branagh’s ARTEMIS FOWL and Tom Hooper’s CATS.

Directed by Trevor Nunn (King Lear, The Great Hamlets), RED JOAN opens in theaters and On Demand April 19, 2019.