Official Secrets (2019)

Directed by

Gavin Hood

Genre

drama film, political thriller film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

R

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 1,121 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British translator reads a classified email from US intelligence asking her British counterparts to help spy on UN diplomats. She decides to leak the email to the press and faces legal consequences for her choice.

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What happens

Official Secrets is a 2019 British drama film directed by Gavin Hood, based on the case of whistleblower Katharine Gun, who exposed an illegal spying operation by American and British intelligence services to gauge sentiment of and potentially blackmail United Nations diplomats tasked to vote on a resolution regarding the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Keira Knightley stars as Gun, alongside Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Adam Bakri, Indira Varma and Ralph Fiennes. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on 28 January 2019 and was released in the United States on 30 August 2019, by IFC Films, and in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2019, by Entertainment One. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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