A review of the 2021 film “Operation Mincemeat”
This is the unlikely – and, for a long time, totally secret – story of a World War Two subterfuge that persuaded Hitler to believe that, in 1943, the Allies were going to make the first invasion of Europe in Greece instead of Sicily.
The film stays close to the true details of the operation, although there is an invented romantic sub-plot to make the work more commercially appealing. This is a war movie with a minimum of action and a great deal of words and, perhaps necessarily, much of the dialogue is expository, but it is all well done with some fine acting, led by Colin Firth as naval officer Ewen Montagu and Matthew Macfadyen as air force officer Charles Cholmondeley.
Note: Mincemeat was based on a 1939 memo, written by Rear Admiral John Godfrey, the director of the Naval Intelligence Division, and his personal assistant, Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming, the latter of whom became post-war the outstandingly successful author of the James Bond novels.
Link: Wikipedia page on the Operation click here