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Official Secrets is a British film of genre Drama directed by Gavin Hood with Keira Knightley
Official Secrets (2019)
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Add to a movie listOfficial Secrets est un docudrame britannico-américain coécrit et réalisé par Gavin Hood, sorti en 2019.
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2003. Les Etats-Unis et l'Angleterre s'apprêtent à intervenir en Irak car l’administration Bush prétexte, sans preuve plausible, que Saddam Hussein détient des armes de destruction massive. Employée des renseignements britanniques, au sein du Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Katharine Gun reçoit dans ses courriels un mémo secret indiquant que les États-Unis sollicitent l'aide de la Grande-Bretagne pour rassembler des informations compromettantes sur certains délégués du Conseil de l'ONU afin de les obliger à voter en faveur de l'invasion. S'ils votent contre, elles seront divulguées publiquement. Stupéfaite, Gun hésite à révéler la machination liée à cette intervention illégale. Malgré tout, elle envoie anonymement le mémo à la presse afin de tenter d'empêcher la guerre qui s'annonce inutile et aux conséquences désastreuses. Mais, en choisissant d'exposer cette vaste conspiration politique, la lanceuse d'alerte met en danger sa vie, son couple, sa liberté et son sens du patriotisme. Car sa décision est considérée comme une trahison aux yeux des services secrets britanniques.Actors
Keira Knightley
(Katharine Gun)
Matthew Smith
(Martin Bright)
Matthew Goode
(Peter Beaumont)
Ralph Fiennes
(Ben Emmerson)
Indira Varma
(Shami Chakrabarti)
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