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Operation Mincemeat

Synopsis

Set in 1943, the film follows two brilliant intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Macfadyen) who conceived a plan that was dubbed Operation Mincemeat. They would trick the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece rather than Sicily. Their plan was to get a corpse, equip it with misleading papers, then drop it off the coast of Spain where Nazi spies would take the bait.

Details

Year
2021
Type of film
Features
Running time
128 min
Director
John Madden
Producer
Iain Canning, Charles S. Cohen, Emile Sherman, Kris Thykier
Executive Producer
Simon Gillis, Christian McLaughlin
Editor
Victoria Boydell
Screenwriter
Michelle Ashford
Director of Photography
Sebastian Blenkov
Production Designer
John Paul Kelly
Principal cast
Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Johnny Flynn

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