The Trial of Tony Blair

The Trial of Tony Blair

From New Labour to hard labour

2007 · 72 min · ★ 6.0 · Drama, Comedy

Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes

Directed by Simon Cellan Jones · Written by Alastair Beaton

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