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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)
- Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein & Gavin Hood
Casting
- Keira Knightley
- Matt Smith
- Matthew Goode
- Rhys Ifans
- Adam Bakri
- Ralph Fiennes
Distributor
- Impuls Pictures
Production
- Clear Pictures Entertainment
- Raindog Films
- The Solution Ent Group
- The Mark Gordon Company
- Silver Reel
Cinematographer
- Florian Hoffmeister
Music
- Paul Hepker
- Mark Kilian
Editor
- Megan Gill
- Duration
- 112'
- Status
- Regional Premiere
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