The Spy (2019-US, UK)
Release Date-6 September.
6 Episodes-Limited series(All available)
Writer & Director- Gideon Raff (Homeland)
Cast - Sacha Baron Cohen(Borat), Hadar Ratzon Rotem(Homeland),
Noah Emmerich, Alexander Siddig.
Based on the book by Uri Dan and Yeshayahu Ben Porat's
"The Spy Who Came From Israel"
Eli Cohen(Sacha Baron Cohen)an Egyptian Jew,
happily-married man is working in a lowly desk
clerk at a Tel Aviv department store.
His wife, Nadia (Hadar Ratzon Rotem ), works as a
seamstress for a rich Israeli couple.
Eli Cohen finds himself recruited by the Israeli
government, he applied twice to be a Mossad
(Israel’s intelligence agency) agent in the past
but was rejected.
Taken under the wing of handler Dan Peleg (Noah Emmerich),
he finds himself that sees a man losing his family,
his life and identity.
Eli Cohen has transformed and operating as Kamel Amin Thaabeth,
a successful importer and exporter of textiles in Damascus.
He tells his wife Nadia that he’s taken a job as a buyer for
Israel’s Ministry of Defense.
And we watch Cohen builds relationships with high-ranking
Syrian officials. In 1962, Cohen cultivated a friendship with
Colonel Amin-Hafez.He staged a successful coup and unknowingly
let Cohen into his inner circle and his access to a wealth of
national secrets.
His intelligence was an instrumental part of Israel’s dominance
in the 1967 Six-Day War. In Israel, he is considered a national hero.
Regardless of your politics, The Spy is best as history,
the story is good and a really tragic one.
And will stick with you after you finish watching it.
Worth watching. The right length at 6 episodes.
This post has been edited by lleihuan: Sep 9 2019, 03:27 PM