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Nov 8, 2003 · Mata Hari: The True Story: Directed by Alain Tasma. With Maruschka Detmers, Bernard Giraudeau, Michel Aumont, Sergio Peris-Mencheta. The Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is accused of spying for Germany during the First World War.
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- Alain Tasma
- 2003-11-08
Oct 13, 2017 · Mata Hari’s True Story Remains a Mystery 100 Years After Her Death. 5 minute read. Mata Hari (1876-1917), real name Gertrude Margarete Zelle. Dancer on French stage, executed as a spy...
Oct 13, 2017 · Margaretha Zelle, a.k.a. “Mata Hari,” an exotic dancer and convicted spy, met her end at age 41 at the hands of a firing squad outside Paris 100 years ago on Oct. 15, 1917.
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Oct 24, 2017 · Alamy. The dancer turned secret agent remains an enigma 100 years after her death. She gave us the idea of the sexy spy, including 007, writes Nicholas Barber. It’s exactly a century since Mata...
- Who Was Mata Hari?
- Early Life
- Exotic Dancer and Mistress
- Spy For France
- Trial For Espionage
- Death, Legacy and Movie
Mata Hari was a professional dancer and mistress who accepted an assignment to spy for France in 1916. Hired by army captain Georges Ladoux, agreeing to pass military information gleaned from her conquests to the French government. Not long after, however, Mata Hari was accused of being a German spy. She was executed by firing squad on October 15, ...
Mata Hari was born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, on August 7, 1876, to father Adam Zelle, a hat merchant who went bankrupt due to bad investments, and mother Antje Zelle, who fell ill and died when Mata Hari was 15 years old. Following her mother's death, Mata Hari and her three brothers were split up and sent to live with...
Paris in 1905 was the perfect time for Mata Hari's exotic looks and the "temple dance" she created by drawing on cultural and religious symbolism and that she had picked up in the Indies. With characteristic confidence, she seized the moment. She billed herself as a Hindu artist, draped in veils—which she artfully dropped from her body. In one memo...
Now nearing 40, plumpish and with her dancing days clearly behind her, Mata Hari fell in love with a 21-year-old Russian captain, Vladimir de Masloff, in 1916. During their courtship, Masloff was sent to the Front, where an injury left him blind in one eye. Determined to earn money to support him, Mata Hari accepted a lucrative assignment to spy fo...
Mata Hari's trial came at a time when the Allies were failing to beat back German advances. Real or imagined spies were convenient scapegoats for explaining military losses, and Mata Hari's arrest was one of many. Her chief foil, Captain Georges Ladoux, made sure the evidence against her was constructed in the most damning way—by some accounts even...
Mata Hari was executed by firing squad on October 15, 1917. Dressed in a blue coat accented by a tri-corner hat, she had arrived at the Paris execution site with a minister and two nuns and, after bidding them farewell, walked briskly to the designated spot. She then turned to face the firing squad, waved away her blindfold and blew the soldiers a ...
A very honest historical recreation of a famous romantic episode of WWI, the trial and execution of Mata Hari, the renowned exotic dancer and adventuress, not to say high class prostitute, turned international spy.
Mata Hari: The True Story (TV Movie 2003) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
