Operation Mincemeat

Name: Operation Mincemeat
Genre: War, History, Drama
Released: 2022-04-01
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 6.521

★ 6,5 /10 (816 Votes)

2022 EN 128 min

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.

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Release date

01/04/2022

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816

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Deception. The greatest weapon in war.

Genres

War History Drama

Status

Released

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Runtime

128 min

Website

www.warnerbros.co.uk

Colin Firth

Ewen Montagu

Matthew Macfadyen

Charles Cholmondeley

Kelly Macdonald

Jean Leslie

Penelope Wilton

Hester Leggett

Johnny Flynn

Ian Fleming

Jason Isaacs

Admiral John Godfrey

Mark Gatiss

Ivor Montazac

Hattie Morahan

Iris Montazac

Paul Ritter

Bentley Purchase

Simon Russell Beale

Winston Churchill

Lorne MacFadyen

Sgt. Roger Dearborn / Glyndwr Michael

Markus von Lingen

Adolf Clauss

Ruby Bentall

Connie Bukes

Alex Jennings

John Masterman

Ellie Haddington

Hilda Georgina Cholmondeley

Nicholas Rowe

Capt. David Ainsworth

Will Keen

Salvador Gomez-Beare

Mark Bonnar

Jock Horsfall

James Fleet

Charles Fraser-Smith

Alexander Beyer

Karl Kuhlenthal

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Nico Birnbaum

Colonel Alexis von Roenne

Pep Tosar

Admiral Moreno

Alba Brunet

Ana Flores

Pedro Casablanc

Dr. Del Torno

Óscar Zafra

Colonel Cerruti

Javier Godino

Judge Pascual del Pobil

Jonjo O'Neill

Teddy

Amy Marston

Nurse Tate

Gabrielle Creevy

Doris Michael

Simon Rouse

Coroner Birtwistle

Paul Lancaster

Coroner Pinfield

Michael Bott

Frank Sawyer (Churchill Butler)

Charlotte Hamblin

Patricia Trehearne

Rufus Wright

Lt. Bill Jewell

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Why, oh why, did they have to clutter this up with a romance? As a wartime adventure film, it's got all the ingredients for a cracker. As WWII starts to turn into a more offensive affair, the allies are looking for any means to divert the Nazis from their true intentions. To that end, "Montague" (Colin Firth) and "Colmondeley" (Matthew Macfadyen) concoct a cunning plan to plant fake documents on a corpse, wash it ashore in Spain and then let corruption and a nefarious network of spies do their worst! It's a remake of the exciting "Man Who Never Was" (1956) and to be fair, is quite a good one. …

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It's nothing that I overly enjoyed, though <em>'Operation Mincemeat'</em> is a good flick. A suitably entertaining (true, if likely 'reimagined' and all that) tale is told within roughly 128 minutes, I do think that run time could've been shorter but I wouldn't go as far as to say it drags or anything - I just felt a few moments at the end where it could've been wrapped up quicker, that's all. Most things in this film are what you'd pretty much expect from a British production of this sort, including the cast which is full of many recognisable faces from across UK television and film. Co…

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