Agrega una trama en tu idiomaYoung Israeli husband Eli Cohen is recruited by the Mossad in the early 1960's and sent to Syria. Telling his wife he has a new job that requires extensive business travel, he takes up resid... Leer todoYoung Israeli husband Eli Cohen is recruited by the Mossad in the early 1960's and sent to Syria. Telling his wife he has a new job that requires extensive business travel, he takes up residence in Syria, where he befriends a high-ranking Syrian government official and provides i... Leer todoYoung Israeli husband Eli Cohen is recruited by the Mossad in the early 1960's and sent to Syria. Telling his wife he has a new job that requires extensive business travel, he takes up residence in Syria, where he befriends a high-ranking Syrian government official and provides invaluable information to Israel. On a visit home, his wife pleads with him to leave his jo... Leer todo
- Premios
- 1 premio ganado y 3 nominaciones en total
- General Haled
- (as Sason Gabay)
- Salloum
- (as Haim Girafi)
- Assan
- (as Jack Cohen)
- Galela
- (as Anat Barzilay)
- Nassim
- (as Yossi Kenan)
- Madame Massim
- (as Judith Millo)
- Major Massim
- (as Victor Kammar)
- Mossad Radio Operator
- (as Itzhak Aloni)
- Israeli Officer (Kibbutz)
- (as Asi Hanegbi)
- Rabbi
- (as Shmuel Shillo)
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In light of that, it is not beyond reason to accept that an Israeli born in Syria could pass for a Syrian Arab, and so infiltrate El Fattah, among other splinter groups vying for power in Syria, thereby obtaining information to help Israeli defense. I found it tougher to swallow that this spy would promptly find a very senior military figure among the Syrian rebel forces vying to topple the government. Even tougher to believe that he would become his chum without attracting any suspicions.
Just as Eli Cohen was picked by Mossad because he did not look like a spy and had a low profile life, so he makes it as a smartly dressed businessman who somehow ingratiates his way to learning a great deal about the array and position of Syrian forces ready to attack Israeli kibbutzin.
Acting is strictly standard and less, only Eli Wallach catches your eye. Cohen's good looking wife, long suffering over hubby's lengthy absences, looks too amateurish.
Anyway, nothing much happens by way of action. 5/10.
The most interesting actor here is not Eli Wallach, who is always of extreme interest, nor John Shea as the lead, who is also absolutely credible in excellence, but Sason Gabay as the Syrian general whom he befriends and betrays. When his treason is beyond repair and nothing more can save him, the general still speaks with him, they still have a friendly conversation, the general has every reason to hate him and shoot him down without flinching, but he stays self-controlled and even grants the traitor his last wishes, giving the impression that he actually respects his former best friend who turned traitor more than hen can respect the general. Sason Gabay makes an almost unforgettable character of cool detachment in the most intolerable possible situation of a betrayed relationship.
The story is true and has the character of a genuine documentary.
The story is exciting and compelling. It's about an Israeli agent who was sent to Syria, via Argentina, in the 1960's and was so successful in infiltrating the Syrian High Command, that he was nominated to be their Deputy Defense Minister--and 3rd in line for the Presidency. Unbelievable. And, all true.
John Shea plays Eli Cohen who infiltrates the Syrian government and manages to acquire secrets and military intelligence which eventually allows Israel to win the Six Days War and take over The Golan Heights.
Eli Wallach plays the Mossad handler. Both leads are earnest and for a BBC TV film very different from its usual subject matter.
It can be seen to be slow and slightly heavy going. It is of course rather one sided hence the controversy as it was seen to have had an Israeli bias.
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- ErroresWhen Yacov shows the picture of then-Colonel Haled to Elie, he correctly pronounces his name as "Jamal", which is the Syrian pronunciation, but when the Colonel introduces himself to Elie, he (the Colonel) pronounces it as "Gamal" which is wrong because that is the Egyptian pronunciation and he is Syrian.
- ConexionesRemade as El espía (2019)
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