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“The Courier” (M) and a half JUST how much Tom O’Connor’s screenplay for Dominic Cooke’s film depends on two books written by British electrical engineer Greville Wynne, and also how correctly those books tell the story, must be a matter for conjecture at this stage. “The Courier” tells a story reflecting Wynne’s service as an unassuming go-between for British intelligence MI-6 and Russian spy Oleg Penkovsky at the height of the Cold War. Never formally acknowledged by the British government, Wynne wrote about his experiences in two self-aggrandising books, “The Man From Moscow” (1967) and “The Man From Odessa” (1981). The key word here is “self-aggrandising”. ....
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Share Concerned about danger, the spies he lunches with assure him: If this mission were the least bit dangerous, you really are the last man we d send! Sent off to Moscow, he is told to assume everyone he meets is KGB. Secret service: The first trailer for the film dropped on Wednesday, teasing drama aplenty Cast: Co-starring Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, and Jessie Buckley, and directed by Dominic Cooke, the film sees unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history Stay! He is sent to-and-fro to Russia, his wife begging him not to go back ....
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