Operation Mincemeat
Deception. The greatest weapon in war.
2022 · 2h 8m · PG-13 Drama, History, War
Overview
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.
Director and 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
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