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The Courier(Movie, 2020)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 52min | Genres: Thriller, History, Drama, Action
The CourierRating: 3.5/5 (with 436436 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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Additional Information

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 DE: 07/01/2021 (World premiere: 03/18/2021)
Appearing Characters: Greville Wynne, Oleg Penkovsky, John A. McCone, Nikita Khrushchev
Director: Dominic Cooke
Producer: Ben Browning, Ben Pugh, Rory Aitken
Director of Photography: Sean Bobbitt
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"
Revenue: 26,000,000 USD

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Other movies with this title: The Courier (IE/GB, 1988), The Courier (US, 2012), The Courier (GB/US, 2019), The Courier (US, 2022)

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