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Operation Mincemeat is a 2021 British war drama film directed by John Madden. It is based upon Ben Macintyre 's book on the British Operation Mincemeat during the Second World War . The film stars Colin Firth , Kelly Macdonald , Matthew Macfadyen , Penelope Wilton , Johnny Flynn and Jason Isaacs .
Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily.Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael, a tramp who died from eating rat poison, dressed him as an officer of the Royal Marines and placed personal items on him identifying him as the fictitious Captain (Acting Major) William ...
Operation Mincemeat involved the acquisition and dressing up of a human cadaver as a "Major William Martin, R.M." and using the submarine HMS Seraph to put it into the sea near Huelva, Spain. Attached to the dead body was a briefcase containing fake letters falsely stating that the Allied attack would be against Sardinia and Greece rather than ...
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It became the subject of several books, and two films, The Man Who Never Was and Operation Mincemeat. The ruse involved dropping a corpse , dressed in a Royal Marines major's uniform, with a briefcase chained to its wrist stuffed with "secret" papers containing disinformation, into the Mediterranean near the coast of Spain, a neutral but Axis ...
In 2021, Operation Mincemeat, a cinematic adaptation of Macintyre's 2010's homonymous book, subtitled The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II, premiered at Australia's British Film Festival, and was released to the public in 2022.
Firth at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival.. Colin Firth is an English actor who has had an extensive career both on stage, screen and television, having received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two BAFTA Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Volpi Cup, as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
In film, Macfadyen is known for his roles in Death at a Funeral (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Anna Karenina (2012), The Assistant (2019), and Operation Mincemeat (2021). In 2024, he played Mr. Paradox in the superhero film Deadpool & Wolverine.