![]() Couple that with his superb talent for schmoozing and boozing with customers, and he emerges as someone who’s neither suspicious nor a potential danger to Soviet security. Wynne’s role as a salesman who works his magic on Eastern European clients makes him a good smuggler as a Brit, he’s assumed to be a purely capitalist creature whose only concern is money. Assisting him in his role as “courier” is Oleg Penkovsky ( Merab Ninidze), a far more experienced Russian agent. ![]() Wynne was a British businessman who, from 19, smuggled thousands of pieces of intel out of Russia before he was captured, imprisoned, and tortured for two years by the KGB. Director Dominic Cooke and screenwriter Tom O’Connor tell the “based on true events” story of Greville Wynne ( Benedict Cumberbatch).
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