The Spy
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A Swedish actress becomes a spy for her country during WWII, but is forced to spy on her own people by a Nazi officer.
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Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia’s most acclaimed and popular female movie star, lives in Stockholm, Sweden when World War II breaks out. Top Nazi officials including the Reich Commissioner, Josef Terboven want Sonja to help power their propaganda machine through the movies she stars in. When her father is imprisoned by the Nazis, Sonja enlists as a spy for Swedish secret service before meeting Terboven in Oslo, Norway to flirt her father out of prison. In the process of doing so, Sonja not only falls in love with Andor Gellert, a Hungarian diplomat, but also agrees to become Terboven’s mistress and spy. Torn between personal politics, the desire to become a star and stretched thin between her true love for Andor, her role as a double agent between Terboven and the Swedish secret service, Sonja must play the role of a lifetime in complete secrecy and with little hope for survival.
""The Spy" is based on the story of Sonja Wigert, who was a Norwegian-Swedish actress and starred in over 30 films between the 1930s and 1960s. The movie is a great war drama, with well-crafted period characterization, costume designer Ulrika Sjölin did a flawless job and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, who brings Wigert to life, is the pure portrait of glamour during World War II. This citation seems almost unfair, but the fact is that cinema was very important at that time and in Germany, the interest in artists was great because they were used as propaganda and various events. The production makes a relevant criticism about how these women were used: were they allies or hostages of the government? When watching the movie it is possible to draw your own conclusions - at least about Sonja Wiger. In fact, the actress sacrificed her career by working with the German government. "The Spy" has such an interesting story that when we find out that it is inspired by real facts it gets even better."