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"Deception. The greatest weapon in war."
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.
34 Cast Members
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
