THE COURIER
synopsis
Based on the true story of the British businessman Greville Wynne who helped the CIA penetrate the Soviet nuclear programme during the Cold War. Wynne and his Russian source, Oleg Penkovsky (codenamed Ironbark), provided crucial intelligence that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis.
| international title: | The Courier |
| original title: | The Courier |
| working title: | Ironbark |
| country: | United Kingdom, United States |
| sales agent: | FilmNation Entertainment (US) |
| year: | 2021 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Dominic Cooke |
| film run: | 112' |
| release date: | PT 10/06/2021, FR 23/06/2021, LT 26/06/2021, DE 1/07/2021, DK 8/07/2021, FI 6/08/2021, SE 6/08/2021, UK 13/08/2021, ES 29/10/2021 |
| screenplay: | Tom O'Connor |
| cast: | Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley |
| cinematography by: | Sean Bobbitt |
| film editing: | Tariq Anwar, Gareth C. Scales |
| art director: | Suzie Davies |
| costumes designer: | Keith Madden |
| music: | Abel Korzeniowski |
| producer: | Adam Ackland, Rory Aitken, Ben Browning, Ben Pugh |
| co-producer: | Donald Sabourin |
| executive producer: | Glen Basner, Leah Clarke, Alison Cohen, Dominic Cooke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ashley Fox, Tom O'Connor, Milan Popelka, Josh Varney |
| line producer: | Kristina Hejduková |
| production: | SunnyMarch, FilmNation Entertainment (US) |
| distributor: | NOS Audiovisuais, SND (Société Nouvelle de Distribution) Films, Acme Film, Telepool, Scanbox Entertainment Denmark, Finnkino, Scanbox Entertainment Sweden, Lionsgate, Diamond Films |
