The Spy

Just finished watching "The Spy" on World Movies Channel. The review gave it 4 Stars but when I consulted IMDB its rating was only 6.1, about average. Was in two minds whether to watch or not. In the end, my wife and I decided to watch it and yes a few mis-spellings in the subtitles if you are observant, but overall, we thought it a very good and riveting movie. The lead, Ingrid Bolso Berdal was very good and was able to enunciate the feelings of being caught or trapped in the middle very well - to be portrayed as a traitor, watching friends being killed but trying all the while to be a patriot and elicit information from the Germans to pass to Swedish authorities. All the cast did well in their parts and the film deserves a much higher rating than it actually got on average. We were almost in tears at the end that her due story was not made available until much later; how she would have suffered throughout her later life due to public ignorance of her true situation. We gave it a strong 8/10 and would thoroughly recommend it, if you get a chance to see it.

An interesting true spy story set during WWII centered in Norway and Sweden.

Well produced and acted by all involved.

It is good to see a war movie that doesn't relay on British/US perspectives.

Exciting story that is also true. Rolf Lassgård is really good.

Incredibly well-told true story, packaged in under 2 hours.

Story that kept me intrigued and interested throughout.

Our heroin starts off as a privileged, spoiled, and career-driven climbing Norwegian actress not very much interested in the world at war and her country's oppression under the Nazi yoke.

But when personally affected by a despotic brutality of the Nazi administrators in her Country, she steps up to the plate and consciously puts her future acting career (and life) on the line. The point of whether she puts the interest of her Country before her own acting ambitions, or whether she is simply motivated by her family's predicament with Nazis was to me not completely clear in the film, perhaps it was intentional on the part of the director, perhaps to this day nobody knows what her real motivation was. Perhaps Sonja Wigert herself, before she died wasn't able to define her own motivation, perhaps it was a combination of factors. But when the time came she did the noble thing and put others before her own safety and career.

Fantastic acting from all characters.

No pun intended - and not really like you (and me). Especially considering the stakes and the time this plays. On the other hand this is based on something real - whether it stays true to facts is another story (again no pun intended) and something I cannot be certain about to be honest.

There are many things surrounding the second world war - and a lot of stories too. You cannot know all of them I reckon. The tension this movie creates is off the charts for sure. The acting is also very good to say the least. The stakes are high - and as you may imagine there are a lot things that can go wrong ... but will they? You have to watch ... nail biting at times and never failing to excite. We of course know who the bad guys are ... which helps.