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Operation Mincemeat
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
2022 · Directed by John Madden · 128 min · War · History · Drama · 17 frames
Tagline
Deception. The greatest weapon in war.
Crew
- Written by: Michelle Ashford
- Cinematography: Sebastian Blenkov
- Edited by: Victoria Boydell
- Music: Thomas Newman
- Production design: John Paul Kelly
- Produced by: Charles S. Cohen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Kris Thykier
Cast
- Colin Firth as Ewen Montagu
- Matthew Macfadyen as Charles Cholmondeley
- Kelly Macdonald as Jean Leslie
- Penelope Wilton as Hester Leggett
- Johnny Flynn as Ian Fleming
- Jason Isaacs as Admiral John Godfrey
- Mark Gatiss as Ivor Montazac
- Hattie Morahan as Iris Montazac
- Paul Ritter as Bentley Purchase
- Simon Russell Beale as Winston Churchill
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America, Spain, Australia
- Language: German, English, Spanish
- Studios: See-Saw Films, Cohen Media Group, A Film Location Company, Archery Pictures
- Themes: sicily, italy, spy, world war ii, based on true story, remake
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