The Courier (2020) (original) (raw)

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis. (less)

Director: Dominic Cooke
Writer: Tom O'Connor
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Angus Wright, Miles Richardson, Merab Ninidze
Producers: Adam Ackland, Rory Aitken, Ben Browning, Dominic Cooke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom O'Connor

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Review by Brian Orndorf, March 17, 2021

7 / 10

�The Courier� explores the saga of Greville Wynne, who�s not only in the possession of the most British name I�ve ever encountered, but he�s partially responsible for preventing the outbreak of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. His story of spying and unlikely partnership with Soviet agent Oleg Penkovsky has been previously explored in two BBC productions over the years, but director Dominic Cooke (�On Chesil Beach�) and screenwriter Tom O�Connor (�The Hitman�s Bodyguard�) try to dig a little deeper into the paranoia and tentative friendship of the arrangement. What initiall ...read more...

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