Movie
Operation Mincemeat
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2022-04-01
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Genres
- War, History, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- See-Saw Films, Cohen Media Group, A Film Location Company, Archery Pictures, FilmNation Entertainment, Palma Pictures, Cross City Films, Haversack Films Limited
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Lorne MacFadyen as Sgt. Roger Dearborn / Glyndwr Michael
- Markus von Lingen as Adolf Clauss
Crew
- John Madden - Director
- Michelle Ashford - Writer
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