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.
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