The Courier(Movie, 2020)

Name: The Courier
Genre: Thriller, History, Drama, Action
Released: 2020
Duration: T01:52:00
Rating: 3.5

PG-13

| 1h 52min | Genres: Thriller, History, Drama, Action

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 436 votes)

The Courier is a 2020 historical spy film directed by Dominic Cooke and written by Tom O'Connor. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne, and is based on the true story of a British businessman who was recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service to be a message conduit with Russian spy source Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze) in the 1960s. Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, and Angus Wright also star. The Courier had its world premiere under its original title Ironbark at the Sundance Film Festival on 24 January 2020, and was theatrically released in the United States on 19 March 2021, and the United Kingdom on 13 August 2021. The film received generally favourable reviews from critics. ()

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About The Courier

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Trailer for The Courier + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Official Spot: Spies Cutdown(Teaser, 0:16)

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Production countries: United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA)

Made by: Lionsgate, FilmNation Entertainment, Roadside Attractions, 42, SunnyMarch

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Russian (RU)

Translated into 33 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 03/19/2021 (World premiere: 03/18/2021)

Appearing Characters: Greville Wynne, Oleg Penkovsky, John A. McCone, Nikita Khrushchev

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Angus Wright, Željko Ivanek, Kirill Pirogov, Anton Lesser, Maria Mironova, Vladimir Chuprikov

Director: Dominic Cooke

Producer: Ben Browning, Ben Pugh, Rory Aitken

Director of Photography: Sean Bobbitt

Composer: Abel Korzeniowski

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Сянката на шпионина"

"O Espião Inglês"

"信使"

"Der Spion"

"Den gode spion"

"Ironbark: El espía inglés"

"Un espion ordinaire"

"軍情諜報"

"L'ombra delle spie"

"The Spy"

"Kurjeris"

"El espía inglés"

"O Espião Inglês"

"Код: Залізна Кора"

"Кур’єр"

"Ironbark"

Keywords: cold war, cia, mi6, based on true story, undercover, british spy, russian spy

Revenue: 26,000,000 USD

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