The Courier (2020)

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The Courier

42/FilmNation Entertainment/SunnyMarch

Roadside Attractions/Elevation Pictures

Available on digital & on-demand 4/16/2021

My Rating: 7/10

#whatonwhatsgood Fan Club Rating: 71%

Directed by

Dominic Cooke

Written by

Tom O’Connor

Produced by

Adam Ackland, Ben Browning, Ben Pugh, Rory Aitken

Starring

Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne

Merab Ninidze as Oleg Penkovsky

Rachel Brosnahan as Helen Talbot

Jessie Buckley as Sheila

Angus Wright as Dickie Franks

Željko Ivanek as CIA Director John A. McCone

Kirill Pirogov as Oleg Gribanov

Anton Lesser as Bertrand

Maria Mironova as Vera

Vladimir Chuprikov as Nikita Khrushchev

Cinematography

Sean Bobbitt

Edited by

Tariq Anwar and Gareth C. Scales

Music by

Abel Korzeniowski

Dominic Cooke about the script

"The script jumped out at me.  It was such a well-written and gripping piece about a brilliant story that I didn't know much about."

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