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Oct 18, 2019 · The Spy: Directed by Jens Jonsson. With Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rolf Lassgård, Alexander Scheer, Damien Chapelle. Sonja Wigert is a diva and star in Stockholm when World War II breaks out, rapidly getting attention from German officer Josef Terboven.
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The true story of Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most popular female movie star during WWII who became a double agent for the Swedish secret service.
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- Jens Jonsson
- Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Biography
- Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
Sep 5, 2019 · The Spy. Nick Allen September 05, 2019. Tweet. Borat is dead, never to return—he's been killed by the type of exposure Sacha Baron Cohen receives each time he goes public with one of his outrageous interviewees. Now, for his latest trick, Cohen echoes the commitment and danger within his acting style by presenting the real-life story of ...
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Eliyahu (Eli) Cohen, an Egyptian Jew, was born in Alexandria in 1924. As a young adult, he worked within Egypt to secretly assist other Egyptian Jews in emigrating to Israel. Cohen later became part of an Israeli spy network in Egypt, which was uncovered and dismantled by Egyptian authorities in 1954. Arriving in Israel after the 1956 Suez Crisis, ...
In South America, Cohen (or Thabet, as his Syrian associates would have known him) posed as a wealthy businessman. He succeeded in gaining the friendship of many influential members of Syria’s community abroad before traveling to Damascus in early 1962 carrying their invaluable letters of introduction. There, he carried on a high-powered social lif...
In the show, Cohen skillfully establishes himself within the Syrian community in Buenos Aires, eventually meeting Colonel Amin al-Hafez (Waleed Zuaiter), a high profile Syrian officer put out to pasture in Argentina as Syria’s military attaché. The real Amin al-Hafez really did befriend Cohen in South America. Later, after Hafez returned to Syria a...
The Spy shows Cohen growing close to Hafez and a group of Syrian conspirators known as the Ba’ath Party, who are preparing to seize power in the country. In real life, the group of radicals took power in Syria in March 1963. The Ba’athists were a group of primarily secular Arab nationalists who opposed colonialism and promoted socialism, militarism...
In late 1964, Cohen went home to Israel for leave. When he returned to Syria, the spy again began transmitting coded dispatches to the Israelis, often broadcasting at the same time each day, an error that would make it easy for Syrian counterintelligence to trace his transmitter. Likely aided by Soviet radio-detection equipment, Syrian soldiers bro...
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- Alejandro de la Garza
The Spy: Created by Gideon Raff. With Sacha Baron Cohen, Noah Emmerich, Hadar Ratzon Rotem, Alexander Siddig. Based on the life of Israeli spy Eli Cohen.
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- 2019-09-06
- Drama, History
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Apr 5, 2024 · As rumors swirl about the next James Bond film, Entertainment Weekly ranks the 25 best spy movies of all time, from blockbusters like 'Mission: Impossible' to Alfred Hitchcock classics like...
11 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 9/10. Thrilling, well written and very good! tildiz149 10 April 2023. The Norwegian author Iselin Theien wrote a biography about Sonja Wigert, a talented actress and, under World War II, a spy. This movie is based on that book.
