THE COURIER
THE COURIER
March 19, 2021
Director
Dominic Cooke
Written By
Tom O’Connor
Starring
Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Merhab Ninidze
Synopsis
THE COURIER is the true story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative (Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.