In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
Colin Firth
as Ewen Montagu
Matthew Macfadyen
as Charles Cholmondeley
Kelly Macdonald
as Jean Leslie
Penelope Wilton
as Hester Leggett
Johnny Flynn
as Ian Fleming
Jason Isaacs
as Admiral John Godfrey
Mark Gatiss
as Ivor Montazac
Hattie Morahan
as Iris Montazac
Paul Ritter
as Bentley Purchase
Simon Russell Beale
as Winston Churchill
Lorne MacFadyen
as Sgt. Roger Dearborn / Glyndwr Michael
Markus von Lingen
as Adolf Clauss