Itʼs 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitlerʼs grip on occupied Europe and plan an all-out assault on Sicily, but they face an impossible challenge – how to protect a massive invasion force from potential massacre.
It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war – centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man.
Kelly Macdonald, Johnny Flynn, Matthew Macfadyen, Colin Firth, Nicholas Rowe, Paul Ritter, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Gatiss, Hattie Morahan, Penelope Wilton, Simon Russell Beale, Lorne MacFadyen, Amy Marston, Alexander Beyer, Charlotte Hamblin
Directed by:
John Madden
Screenplay:
Michelle Ashford
Music:
Thomas Newman
Produced by:
Iain Canning, Charles S. Cohen, Emile Sherman, Kris Thykier
‘Operation Mincemeat’ is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to turn the tide for the Allies - taking impossibly high risks, defying logic, and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point.