THE COURIER
Duration: 111 mins
Director: Dominic Cooke
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jessie Buckley, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Angus Wright
Genre: Thriller
The Courier is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative, he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.