Type: Thriller, Drama
Release Year: 2020
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze
Director: Dominic Cooke
Duration: 1 hr 52 mins
The Courier is based on true events dating back to the era of the cold war. Colonel Oleg Penkovsky of the erstwhile Soviet Union reaches out to the secret agencies of the U.S and the U.K in order to find a solution to diffuse the tensions that could lead to a nuclear catastrophe between the U.S and the Soviet Union. The secret agencies recruit a businessman Greville Wynee to act as a spy and work with the Colonel and become a courier, thus forming a compelling thriller.