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Official Secrets
by Gavin Hood
2003, on the eve of the American intervention in Iraq. Katharine Gun, a British intelligence officer, receives a note from the NSA: the United States seeks Britain's help in gathering compromising information on certain members of the UN Security Council to force them to vote in favour of the invasion. Gun decides to release the memo to the press to prevent war. By choosing to expose this vast political conspiracy, the whistleblower risks everything: her life, her family, her freedom…
Section: Out of competition - Fiction
Director(s)
Gavin Hood
Writer(s)
Sara Bernstein & Gavin Hood
Casting
- Adam Bakri
- Ralph Fiennes
- Matthew Goode
- Rhys Ifans
- Keira Knightley
- Matt Smith
Distributor
- Impuls Pictures
Production
- Clear Pictures Entertainment
- Raindog Films
- Silver Reel
- The Mark Gordon Company
- The Solution Ent Group
Cinematographer
- Florian Hoffmeister
Music
- Paul Hepker
- Mark Kilian
Duration
112'
Status
Regional Premiere
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