Operation Mincemeat

1943, during the Second World War. Two brilliant intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Macfadyen), hatch a plan called 'Operation Mincemeat'. They want to fool the Nazis into believing that the Allied forces are planning an attack on southern Europe via Greece - and not via Sicily, as was widely expected. Their ingenious plan: to procure a corpse and equip it with misleading papers before launching it off the coast of Spain. This would set the bait for the Nazi spies. Now all that's left is to somehow get a corpse...