I was expecting a hilarious Weekend at Bernie's style romp with using a corpse to fool Hitler, not this.
The Allied Forces need to take Sicily, so the Germans had to be distracted. One option was Operation Trojan Horse, to use a dead body washed up to leak faked papers to make the Germans believe the attack was on Greece instead. This is the story of that body and the operation behind it.
Which has a bit more romance and intrigue that you might normally expect, and not just on the side of trying to fool the Germans (indeed, that part is nearly rushed through). The personal story gives the movie more personal stakes, but either the movie gets limited by what actually happens or you go on entire flights of fancy that just end up taking over everything. I suspect they err more on the former than the latter.
And quite the cast to carry it all off. Colin Firth. Matthew Macfayden. Penelope Wilton. And a rather surprising performance from Mark Gatiss, in that I was surprised to see him in a non Doctor Who / non Steven Moffat production.
Decent movie, which can easily be seen on Netflix... if possibly not New Zealand's Netflix...
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