Operation Mincemeat

[Available currently only on Netflix.] John Madden's intense, factually inspired, well-acted, suspenseful, star-studded (Penelope Wilton, Simon Russell Beale, Kelly Macdonald, Mark Gatiss, Mark Bonnar, Paul Ritter, Nicholas Rowe, Johnny Flynn, Will Keen, and Rufus Wright), 128-minute, 2021 film based on Ben Macintyre's novel and the film The Man Who Never Was in which high-level British military command (Jason Isaacs, Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, et al.) concoct a plan using a corpse (Lorne MacFadyen) and a briefcase carrying bogus documents to lead the Germans to believe that British and Allied forces are invading Greece on July 10, 1943, rather than Sicily.
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