In the film, which has a script by Michelle Ashford based on the novel Ben MacintyreFirth is Ewen Montagu, the English secret service’s counterintelligence and deception specialist who is left in charge of finding a way to divert the attention of the Axis powers from that Italian region in order to enter the continent.
Together with his colleague Charles Cholmondeley, played by matthew macfadyen (“Succession”), the officers will devise one of the most unusual strategies of the Second World War: to pass off a corpse as that of a member of the Royal Navy who was carrying apocryphal documents about an alleged Allied invasion of Greece.
For this, the duo obtained the body of a 34-year-old man, who died of pneumonia, and after creating a new identity for him as Commander William Martin, they left him on the Spanish coast along with a series of supposedly classified papers that gave false indications of the next landing point.
This is the 12th film by John Madden, recognized for having directed the Oscar-winning “Shakespeare in Love” (1998) and titles such as “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” (2001) and “The Exotic Marigold Hotel” (2011).
In addition, the cast of “El Arma del Deceit” is completed with the participation of kelly macdonald (“Trainspotting”), penelope wilton (“Downton Abbey”), Johnny Flynn (“Lovesick”), Jason Isaacs (“Harry Potter” franchise), Simon Russel Beale (“Penny Dreadful”) and Paul Ritter (“Chernobyl”), among more.
Source: Ambito
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