Grierson and Gouzenko

This rarelyscreened teleplay written by Rick Salutin offers a dramatic glimpse into Canadas Red Scare that predated the rise of McCarthyism in the United States John Grierson and his National Film Board of Canada become targets of an antiCommunist blacklist in the immediate postwar years after Soviet clerk Igor Gouzenko produced documents revealing a spy ring operating in Canada With a cast featuring Eric Peterson as Grierson Saul Rubinek as Gouzenko and Aaron Schwartz as Communist Party MP Fred Rose this forgotten piece of Canadian history is brought to life in a very compelling CBC drama