Another Country

Another Country is loosely based on the life of the spy Guy Burgess, renamed "Guy Bennett" in the play, and examines the effect his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism has on his life, and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public schools.
The setting is a 1930s public school modelled on Eton, where Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly homosexual, while Judd is a Marxist.
One day a schoolmaster finds a boy named Martineau and a boy from another house having sex. Martineau subsequently kills himself because of the shame of having been found in a homosexual embrace, and chaos erupts as both masters and senior boys try to keep the scandal away from the parents and the rest of the outside world. However, the scandal gives the army-obsessed house captain, Fowler, a boy who dislikes both Bennett and Judd, a welcome reason to scheme against Bennett, aiming to keep him from becoming a "God" - a school name for the boys chosen to join the group of senior boys modelled on "Pop" at Eton. Fowler then intercepts a love letter from Bennett to James Harcourt, and Bennett agrees to accept a punishment in order to avoid compromising Harcourt. On an earlier occasion he had simply blackmailed the other Gods for their own "experiences" with him.
Meanwhile, Judd is reluctant to become a prefect, since he feels that this would amount to endorsing the school's "system of oppression", and he makes a memorable, bitter speech about how the boys oppressed by the system grow up to be the fathers who maintain it. However, he eventually agrees to become a prefect, in the hope of preventing the hated Fowler from becoming Head of House. This never comes about, however, because Devenish agrees to stay at the school and become a prefect if he is nominated to become a God instead of Bennett.
Devastated at the loss of his cherished dream of becoming a God, Bennett comes to realize that the British class system relies strongly on outward appearances, and that to be openly homosexual would be a severe hindrance to his intended career in the diplomatic service. The epilogue of the movie states that Bennett defected to Russia later in life, after having been a spy for the Soviet Union, while Judd died fighting in the Spanish Civil War.