The Courier

111 min | 1 Apr 2021

Mature themes, violence and coarse language

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

THE COURIER is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Director
Dominic Cooke
Cast
Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Angus Wright
Genre
Thriller
Rating
M (Mature themes, violence and coarse language)
Release Date
1 April 2021
Runtime
111 min
Language
English