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External Affairs (1999)

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Length 1h30
Genres Drama
Rating73% 3.672453.672453.672453.672453.67245

External Affairs is a Canadian television film, which aired on CBC Television in 1999.

An adaptation of Timothy Findley's play The Stillborn Lover, the film stars Victor Garber as Henry Raymond, a Canadian diplomat in Moscow who is summoned back to Ottawa for questioning by Michael Riordan (Kenneth Welsh), the Minister of External Affairs, after he is implicated in the murder of a young man. The investigation reveals secrets that threaten to destroy both men's careers.



^ "On set: External Affairs". Playback, December 14, 1998.

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