Britain’s bid to dupe the Nazis takes to the silver screen
MATTHEW MACFADYEN STARS AS CHARLES CHOLMONDELEY, COLIN FIRTH AS EWEN MONTAGU AND JOHNNY FLYNN AS IAN FLEMING IN THE NEW FILM, ‘OPERATION MINCEMEAT’
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IT is fitting that a film about one of the most intricate and difficult acts of deception of World War Two should begin with people in a quiet room awaiting a message – any message.
Had success been achieved or had their ruse been uncovered? Acts of misinformation were rife, and so it would take something truly spectacular to fool a German Wehrmacht that by 1943 had become paranoid about reports of any possible Allied movement. It is into this maelstrom that the audience is thrown.
