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The Courier is a 2020 historical spy film directed by Dominic Cooke and written by Tom O'Connor. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne, and is based on the true story of a British businessman who was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service to be a message conduit with Russian spy source Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze) in the 1960s.
- $26 million
- Abel Korzeniowski
Jan 4, 2024 · 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 ...
- Colin Mccormick
- Dominic Cooke
Mar 18, 2021 · A new spy thriller draws on the fascinating life—and whopping lies—of one of the U.K.’s most famous intelligence agents. Merab Ninidze and Benedict Cumberbatch in The Courier . Liam Daniel ...
Mar 20, 2021 · 'The Courier' Greville Wynne was the least-likely spy in the Cold War. Wynne was a middle-class British businessman whose frequent travel to Eastern Europe attracted recruitment by MI-6 to serve ...
Released in exchange deal. Greville Maynard Wynne (19 March 1919 [1] – 28 February 1990) was a British engineer and businessman recruited by MI6 because of his frequent travel to Eastern Europe. He acted as a courier to transport top-secret information to London from the Soviet agent Oleg Penkovsky. Wynne and Penkovsky were both arrested by ...
- 1 son - Andrew
- University of Nottingham
- 8 years; served 18 months
- British
Mar 18, 2021 · A British businessman (Benedict Cumberbatch, right) is smuggling top-secret documents provided by a rogue Russian intelligence officer (Merab Ninidze) in “The Courier.”. If there’s such a ...
Mar 20, 2021 · "The Courier" is based on the true story of how British businessman Greville Wynne was recruited by MI6 to help transport crucial intelligence from a Soviet man named Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze).
