''Confessional'' is a British

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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

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and adapted for the television by James Mitchell and directed by Gordon Flemyng, it was produced by

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for the ITV network and originally aired in four parts from 4 to 25 October 1989. The plot follows a rogue terrorist turned Soviet

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, code named Cuchulain, trying to prevent a peace agreement between the parties involved in

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Cast

* Robert Lindsay as Thomas Kelly * Keith Carradine as Liam Devlin * Simon Chandler as Fox * Robert Lang as Brigadier Charles Ferguson *Valentina Yakunina as Tanya Maslovskaya * Arthur Brauss as General Maslovsky * David de Keyser as Professor Cherny *Stephen Holland as Davey * Helen Rappaport as Major Belova * Niall Toibin as Sean Gallagher *Hugo Conlon as Irish newsreader *Colum Convey as Billy *Tony Hawkins as English newsreader *Peter Majer as Levin *Michael John Paliotti as Father Michael Kelly * Anthony Quayle as The Pope * Catherine Rabett as Jane Barclay

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