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…
THE TRUTH IS ALWAYS THE FIRST
CASUALTY OF WAR
Keira Knightley (Colette, The Imitation Game) stars as Katharine Gun alongside Matt Smith (Doctor Who, The Crown), Matthew Goode (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Crown) and Ralph Fiennes (Spectre, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Schindler’s List).
Official Secrets is directed by Gavin Hood (Eye in the Sky, Rendition, Tsotsi), written by Gavin Hood, Sara Bernstein, Gregory Bernstein and produced by Ged Doherty (Eye in the Sky, Loving), Elizabeth Fowler (Devil’s Knot) and Melissa Shiyu Zuo.
