Eye of the needle 1981 film biography

1981 film by Richard Marquand

For the 1962 comedy-drama film, see The Eye of the Needle (film).

Eye of the Needle is a 1981 British spy film directed by Richard Marquand, and starring Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan.

Written by Stanley Mann, it is based on the 1978 novel of the same title by Ken Follett.

The film is about a German Nazispy in the United Kingdom during World War II who discovers vital information about the upcoming D-Day invasion and his attempt to return to Germany while he is stranded with a family on the isolated (fictional) Storm Island, off the coast of Scotland.

Plot

Henry Faber is a cold and emotionless Germansleeper agent nicknamed "the Needle" because he prefers to kill with a stiletto. While spying in England, he obtains critical information of a massive military deception campaign to disguise the Allies' plans to invade Normandy instead of Pas de Calais as Nazi Germany High Command expects, but is unable to trans