The Courier is a 2020 American-British film directed by Dominic Cooke about the work between a British businessman Greville Wynne, recruited as an MI-6 agent, and Soviet spy Oleg Penkovsky, who passed information to the West that helped defuse the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Wynne. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on 24 January 2020.



Director
Dominic Cooke

Producer
Dominic Cooke
Tom O’Connor
Ben Pugh
Rory Aitken
Adam Ackland
Josh Varney
Leah Clark

Cast
Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne
Rachel Brosnahan as Emily Donovan
Jessie Buckley as Sheila Wynne
Merab Ninidze as Oleg Penkovsky
Angus Wright as Dickie Franks
Kirill Pirogov
Keir Hills as Andrew Wynne
Jonathan Harden as Leonard

Distributor
Roadside Attractions
Lionsgate

Trailer
TBA

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