Aunty Edith and the Cambridge Five . . .

Tracking Edith (PG) Verdict: Stolid, but enlightening

Edith Tudor-Hart was an accomplished photographer who made a name for herself in Depression-era britain with her images of social deprivation.

before her death in 1973, she was running an antiques shop in brighton. all of which makes her sound like a quintessential englishwoman. but she wasn’t. She was austrian. and she was a Soviet spy.

This stodgy, but enlightening, documentary (directed by Peter Stephan Jungk, her great-nephew) explains that she was born edith Suschitzky in 1908 and later married an english doctor, alexander Tudor-Hart.

by the early Thirties, edith was living in britain, working for Soviet Intelligence, and helped to recruit the so- called Cambridge Five, who each did untold damage to britain over many years.

They betrayed their friends and colleagues. but edith’s treachery was arguably no less contemptible, a betrayal of the country that had given her a home.