OPERATION MINCEMEAT (13LV)

Directed : John Madden (Shakespeare in Love)
Starring : Colin Firth, Matthew Macfayden, Kelly Macdonald

Based on the best-selling novel.

In July 1943, British Intelligence, the M15, initiated the greatest deception in history. To protect a massive invasion force of Sicily from the Nazis, two remarkable intelligence officers employ the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary true story of the inspired and improbable response invoked to alter the course of the Second World War. It involves a rich human story of the soldiers we seldom see, who fight a war in the shadows , haunted by the fear that success is never guaranteed.