Benedict Cumberbatch – Dr Strange to Marvel fans, Sherlock to TV-viewers and Alan Turing to Oscar-watchers – likes variety. Is he applying for the vacant position of James Bond by starring in a spy movie? No, or at least not ostentatiously. His spy agent is closer to you and me than to Bond or Jason Bourne, and has really existed.
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| Benedict Cumberbatch plays Greville Wynne, an ordinary British businessman who at the request of the CIA and MI6 passed on secret information from a Soviet colonel.
Review
The Courier: a spy just like you and me
Greville Wynne was an ordinary British businessman who spent a lot of time working in Russia during the Cold War. At the request of the CIA and MI6, he passed on secret information from Soviet colonel Oleg Penkovsky. Do not expect action, but a solid, sober but excellently photographed drama.
THE COURIER
UK, dir.: Dominic Cooke, cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley
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