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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. She's then recruited by Swedish intelligence as a spy, but Terboven makes her spy on the Swedes.
- (1.8K)
- Biography, Drama, History
- Jens Jonsson
- 2019-10-18
The spy is an edge of the seat thriller based on Mossad agent Eli Cohan. This 6 episode mini series chronicles the years Eli spent as a spy in Syria and befriended top Syrian officials and smuggled information for Israel.
- (50K)
- 2019-09-06
- Biography, Drama, History
- 53
THE SPY, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, is inspired by the real-life story of former notorious Mossad agent, Eli Cohen, who successfully goes undercover in Syri...
- 2 min
- 3.7M
- Netflix
Top 25 Greatest Spy Movies of All Time. by TheManwithNoName_ • Created 9 years ago • Modified 4 years ago. This is a list of movies in which espionage playes a lage role in the film or are somehow related with to what happens on screen.
- Who Was Eli Cohen?
- What Did Eli Cohen Do as A Mossad Agent?
- Who Was Amin Al-Hafez?
- What Is The Ba’ath Party?
- What Happened to Eli Cohen?
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...
- 2 min
- Alejandro de la Garza
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Spy is a 2015 American spy action comedy film starring Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, and Jude Law. It follows a desk-bound CIA agent who goes undercover to stop a nuclear threat and falls in love with a field agent.
In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad. Watch trailers & learn more.
