The Spy

Television series
German title	The Spy
Original title	The Spy
Country of production	France , United States
original language	English
year	2019
length	47-62 minutes
Episodes	6 in 1 season
genre	Agent movie , drama
idea	Gideon Raff
music	Guillaume Roussel
Initial release	September 6, 2019 on Netflix
First publication in German	September 6, 2019 on Netflix
occupation
Sacha Baron Cohen : Eli Cohen Hadar Ratzon-Rotem : Nadia Cohen Yael Eitan : Maya Noah Emmerich : Dan Peleg Nassim Si Ahmed : Ma'azi Zaher al-Din Moni Moshonov : Jacob Shimoni Alona Tal : Julia Schneider Mourad Zaoui : Benny Alexander Siddig : Ahmed Suidani

The Spy is a French - American miniseries directed by Gideon Raff . It is a co-production between the French television channel Canal + and the US streaming service Netflix and, based on the book L'espion qui venait d'Israël by Uri Dan and Yeshayahu Ben Porat, tells the story of the Mossad spy Eli Cohen (played by Sacha Baron Cohen ). The series was published on September 6, 2019 on Netflix.

action

The episodes follow the recruitment, training, and overseas assignments of Mossad spy Eli Cohen . The story takes place in the years before the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt , Jordan and Syria in June 1967.

reception

Reviews

Maresa Sedlmeir from the Süddeutsche Zeitung writes that the dramaturgy is convincing with its "constant change of location between the Mossad office, Cohen's apartment in Damascus and that of his wife in Tel Aviv". The stories are “cleverly interwoven”, so that “with Nadia's pregnancy as well as with the Morse code news to the Mossad”.

Awards

At the 2020 Golden Globe Awards , Sacha Baron Cohen was nominated for Best Actor - Miniseries or TV Movie .

Web links

• The Spy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Spy at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maresa Sedlmeir: Borat is serious. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 9, 2019, accessed on January 19, 2020 .