The courier cast3/19/2023 ![]() ![]() While dealing with clients and using his practiced social skill set and friendly demeanor, Greville is suddenly recruited by MI6 official, Dickie Franks (Angus Wright), and CIA overseas agent, Emily Donovan (Rachel Brosnahan), asked to meet with Soviet agent Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), who’s managed to contact the American Embassy in Moscow, warning them of Nikita Khrushchev’s (Vladimir Chuprikov) plans to escalate the nuclear arms race. In 1960, Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) is British businessman, who is trying to make ends meet for his family, including his wife, Shelia (Jessie Buckley) and his son, Andrew (Keir Hills). Does this movie find insight into its espionage premise or does it get lost within the classic Cold War tropes that have been played out many times before? ![]() Now, Lionsgate, Filmnation Entertainment, and director Dominic Cooke present the latest offering for a cinematic look into the Cold War with the film The Courier based off of the events surrounding Greville Wynn and Oleg Penkovsky. Due to its long duration and different facets of the innerworkings of the two nations, Hollywood has taken a interest in the events of the Cold War shining a camera lens on both fictional and non-fictional narratives and using the tense historical backdrop setting for several cinematic tales over the years, including 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate, 1990’s The Hunt for Red October, 2000’s Thirteen Days, 1979’s (and 2011’s) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 2015’s Bridge of Spies, and 2017’s Atomic Blonde just to name a few. In fact, the conflict was based around the ideological and geopolitical struggle for global influence between the two nations, including a nuclear arms race, as well as more psychological warfare tactics such as propaganda, campaigns, embargoes, espionage, competition in technology feats such as the Space Race. Taking place after the events of World War II and beginning (more or less) from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the war signifies the tension between the two superpowers, with the term “cold” being used is the terminology of there being no large-scale fighting directly the warring nations especially compared to the two World Wars or the Vietnam War. History has recounted the events of the Cold War as a geopolitical between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respectable allies. A RESPECTABLE (YET FAMILIAR) ESPIONAGE DRAMA
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