The Man Who Never Was (1956)

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(5786)

Country: UK, USA
Genres: Drama, War
Release: 1956-02-23
Director: Ronald Neame
Writers: Nigel Balchin , Ewen Montagu
Language: English | German | Spanish | Latin
Stars: Clifton Webb , Gloria Grahame , Robert Flemyng , Josephine Griffin , Stephen Boyd , Laurence Naismith , Geoffrey Keen , Moultrie Kelsall , Cyril Cusack , André Morell
Runtime: 103 min
Awards: Won 1 BAFTA Award2 wins & 4 nominations total
AKA: Mies, jota ei ollutkaan (Finland) , De man die nooit bestond (Netherlands the) , Человек, которого никогда не было , Der Mann, den es nie gab , Vatan borcu (Turkey) , The Man Who Never Was (United Kingdom) , O Homem Que Nunca Existiu (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , O anthropos pou den ypirxe pote (Greece) , A sosemvolt ember (Hungary) , 過去のない男 (Japan) , L'homme qui n'a jamais existé (Canada) , El hombre que nunca existió (Argentina) , El hombre que nunca existió (Venezuela) , Omul care n-a existat niciodată (Romania) , Ο άνθρωπος που δεν υπήρξε ποτέ (Greece) , The Man Who Never Was (Canada) , El hombre que nunca existió (Mexico) , The Man Who Never Was , Człowiek, którego nie było (Poland) , The Man Who Never Was (Australia) , El espía que nunca existió (Mexico) , The Man Who Never Was (Philippines) , L'homme qui n'a jamais existé (France, French Republic) , Der Mann, den es nie gab (Austria) , The Man Who Never Was (United States of America) , O Homem que Nunca Existiu (Brazil) , Mannen som inte fanns (Sweden) , L'uomo che non è mai esistito (Italy) , El hombre que nunca existió (Spain) , Manden, der aldrig har levet (Denmark)
Plot:
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily’s defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
IMDB:tt0049471