Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Acting
Cumberbatch's physical deterioration will wreck you.
Direction
Cooke makes briefcase handoffs feel like bomb defusals.
Director
Dominic Cooke
Benedict Cumberbatch
Greville Wynne
Merab Ninidze
Oleg Penkovsky
Rachel Brosnahan
Emily Donovan
Jessie Buckley
Sheila Wynne
Angus Wright
Dickie Franks
Kirill Pirogov
Gribanov
Iva Šindelková
Embassy Assistant
Vladimir Chuprikov
Nikita Khrushchev
Fred Haig
Lee
Mariya Mironova
Vera
Anton Lesser
Bertrand
Miles Richardson
Golf Exec
Petr Klimeš
Popov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Wynne wrote a memoir claiming MI6 drugged and hypnotized him; historians remain skeptical of his more colorful assertions.
The whispered 'We are only two people. But this is how things change.' became the film's emotional anchor, though screenwriter Tom O'Connor invented the line—no historical record exists of their actual conversations.
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