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Operation Mincemeat arrives January
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SeeSawFilms is finally ready to release their new historical movie
OPERATION MINCEMEAT in cinemas around Europe this month (April 15th in UK, Russia, India), after a long delay, and after that it should also arrive to
Netflix, from May 11th but only for the audiences from the rest of the world.
Colin Firth and
MatthewMacFadyen play two intelligence officers who, during WWII, use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops. Directed by
John Madden, the film also stars Kelly Macdonald,
Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs, JohnnyFlynn, Mark Bonnar, and Matthew's nephew
Lorne MacFadyen, Simon Russell Beale,
Alex Jennings, Hattie Morahan, Mark Gatiss and
Paul Ritter whose final role
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this was before he died last year.
The film is based on a book by
Ben Macintyre. He is a well know historian who also helped write the script for the film. It is believed that James Bond's
Ian Fleming was the original author of this operation during the Second World War. He is played in the film by
Johnny Flynn.
when the Allies were determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe, the remarkable true story follows intelligence officers Ewen Montagu (Firth)
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Matthew MacFadyen, Colin Firth, Johnny Flynn
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and Charles Cholmondeley (Macfadyen) who conjure an inspired and improbable disinformation strategy centered on the most unlikely of secret
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January release was delayed when Netflix bought streaming rights
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agents: a dead man. They would trick the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
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The film is based on an extraordinary true story!
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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. It was a plan that helped turn the tide of the whole war.
this was before he died last year.The film is based on a book by Ben Macintyre. He is a well know historian who also helped write the script for the film. It is believed that James Bond's Ian Fleming was the original author of this operation during the Second World War. He is played in the film by Johnny Flynn.
