Operation Mincemeat

Apr 1, 2022

2h 8m

★ 6.5

Deception. The greatest weapon in 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.

Genres

War

History

Drama

Production Companies

See-Saw Films

Cohen Media Group

A Film Location Company

Archery Pictures

FilmNation Entertainment

Palma Pictures

Cross City Films

Haversack Films Limited

Operation Mincemeat Trailers

Cast

Ewen Montagu

Colin Firth

Charles Cholmondeley

Matthew Macfadyen

Jean Leslie

Kelly Macdonald

Hester Leggett

Penelope Wilton

Ian Fleming

Johnny Flynn

Admiral John Godfrey

Jason Isaacs

Ivor Montazac

Mark Gatiss

Iris Montazac

Hattie Morahan

Bentley Purchase

Paul Ritter

Winston Churchill

Simon Russell Beale

Sgt. Roger Dearborn / Glyndwr Michael

Lorne MacFadyen

Adolf Clauss

Markus von Lingen

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