Name: ANU Film Group Screening – The Courier
Start: 2021-05-13T19:30:00+10:00
End: 2021-05-13T21:21:00+10:00
Location: Cultural Centre Kambri (ANU Building 153)

ANU Film Group Screening – The Courier

Australia's biggest and best film society. Screening films in Canberra since 1966!

ANU Film Group

In the 1960s, an ordinary British businessman (Benedict Cumberbatch) is recruited to smuggle crucial intelligence from a spy out of Russia.

Cultural Centre Kambri (ANU Building 153)

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In 1960, in the shadow of the Cold War, Russian spy Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) sends a letter to his intelligence counterparts in the West, expressing anxieties about his country starting a nuclear war. Believing him to be under constant surveillance, and suspicious of leaks within their own organisations, MI-6 and the CIA decide to task an ordinary civilian with being Penkovsky&#x27;s intermediary: British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch).Posing as a business partner of Penkovsky&#x27;s, the unassuming Wynne becomes his courier, smuggling top-secret Soviet intelligence from the USSR to London under the guise of business trips. The crucial intelligence – regarding Soviet missiles being transported to Cuba – ultimately helps to defuse one of the greatest international conflicts in history. Based on a thrilling true story, and with another terrific performance from Cumberbatch at its heart, The Courier is a rousing and effective old-school spy adventure.M | 111 mins | 2020Doors will open for entry 30 minutes prior to the advertised start time. Please visit our website at <a href="https://www.anufg.org.au" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.anufg.org.au</a> or contact us at info@anufg.org.au for more information.

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