Official Secrets (2019)

Official Secrets (2019)

NAME OF FILM: OFFICIAL SECRETS

DIRECTOR(S): Gavin Hood

STARRING: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes

GENRE: Biography Film

SYNOPSIS: Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley) wasn’t expecting to come across a memo outlining efforts to blackmail and coerce UN Security Council members into voting for war with Iraq—but when she did she was faced with a choice: forget about it, or expose the truth. What follows is a tense political thriller about the aftermath of her attempt to make the info public. Risking her life and the deportation of her husband, Gun never backs down, even through a grueling trial for treason.