Official Secrets

2019
6
1 Std. 52 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

56.512

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

3.275

387

Ralph Fiennes, Keira Knightley, and Matt Smith in Official Secrets (2019)

The story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain's help in collecting compromising information on United Nations Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family directly in harm's way.

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Die wahre Geschichte eines britischen Informanten, der der Presse Informationen über eine illegale NSA-Spionageoperation durchsickerte, die den UN-Sicherheitsrat dazu bringen sollte, die Inv... Alles lesenDie wahre Geschichte eines britischen Informanten, der der Presse Informationen über eine illegale NSA-Spionageoperation durchsickerte, die den UN-Sicherheitsrat dazu bringen sollte, die Invasion des Irak im Jahr 2003 zu sanktionieren.Die wahre Geschichte eines britischen Informanten, der der Presse Informationen über eine illegale NSA-Spionageoperation durchsickerte, die den UN-Sicherheitsrat dazu bringen sollte, die Invasion des Irak im Jahr 2003 zu sanktionieren.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

56.512

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

3.275

387

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Nicole Mowbray is the actual Observer's young journalist who replaced some terms from the secret memo (in the movie due to the use of grammar checker). And she was contacted by the actress who played her, Hanako Footman, to provide more details about the episode.

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In a top secret facility, there are never removable disc drives, as shown in the movie. It's too easy to intentionally, or unintentionally, remove files to the outside.

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Katharine Gun: Governments change. I work for the British people. I gather intelligence so that the government can protect the British people. I do not gather intelligence so that the government can lie to the British people.

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7/10

Really Enjoyable

Official Secrets studies the events that are happening in intelligence during the run up to the second gulf war. Having lived through the times myself was aware of the background to the movie, but unaware of the specific story that it explores.

Keira Knightly plays Katharine Gun who works at GCHQ collecting intelligence for the UK. She is concerned about the accuracy of the intelligence that is being used to prove the case for war. The British and American government need a resolution passing at the United Nations to legitimize the war. A memo is distributed to collect intelligence on the United Nations members that can be used to coax them into voting for the resolution. She is shocked by this and wants to stop the war.

In the same way that Brexit dominates British news at the moment WMD's dominated the next back then. The movie is good and shows the pressure that everybody is under. You get the chance to wonder whether you would make the same decisions as Katharine and whether she was right to do it.

I've never been a big fan of Knightly, but she does a fine job in Official Secrets. Well worth a watch.