Coup!

Coup!

2006 · 90 min · Drama

Dramatisation of the abortive real-life attempt by Simon Mann to organise a coup to take over Equatorial Guinea in 2004. The case achieved notoriety because one of the financial backers of the project was Sir Mark Thatcher, son of British ex-PM 'Margaret Thatcher'.

Directed by Simon Cellan Jones · Written by John Fortune

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