SYNOPSIS

Official Secrets. In 2003, as politicians in Britain and the US angle to invade Iraq, GCHQ translator Katharine Gun leaks a classified e-mail that urges spying on members of the UN Security Council to force through the resolution to go to war. Charged with breaking the Official Secrets Act, and facing imprisonment, Katharine and her lawyers set out to defend her actions. With her life, liberty and marriage threatened, she must stand up for what she believes in…

Premiered at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival on October 10th 2019.


TRAILER


RELEASE DATE

October 18, 2019

DIRECTOR

Gavin Hood

WRITER

Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein, Gavin Hood (screenplay), Marcia Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell (based on the book "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion")

COMPANY

Entertainment One

GENRE

Biography, Drama, Thriller

CERT

15

RUNTIME

112 minutes

IMAGES