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Ironbark: Did two spies really prevent the Cuban missile crisis?
Ironbark is one of 2020’s anticipated movies. Benedict Cumberbatch plays the MI6 handler of a Russian spy who may have helped prevent nuclear war Humans 29 January 2020 By Chris Baraniuk A control room at a Soviet nuclear missile base outside MoscowRobert Wallis/Corbis via Getty ImagesIronbark Directed by Dominic Cooke THE cold war was about…
Ironbark is one of 2020’s anticipated movies. Benedict Cumberbatch plays the MI6 handler of a Russian spy who may have helped prevent nuclear war
Humans
29 January 2020
Robert Wallis/Corbis via Getty Images
Directed by Dominic Cooke
THE cold war was about to get messy and two people were in the thick of it. Ironbark, the gripping story of Greville Wynne, a UK businessman recruited by MI6, and Soviet intelligence officer Oleg Penkovsky, premiered at the Sundance film festival last month.
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Taking its title from the codename used by Penkovsky, it stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Wynne, Merab Ninidze as Penkovsky and Rachel Brosnahan as CIA agent Emily …
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