This riveting film tells the incredible but true story of Elie Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jew and top Israeli intelligence recruit whose obsession with his mission as a double agent drove him to his death. Cohen, an accountant with a photographic memory, left his pregnant wife to join the Mossad’s Syrian section in 1959 and quickly infiltrated the highest ranks of the ruling Syrian Baath party. On the eve of his nomination as Syria’s Deputy Minister of Defense, Cohen was uncovered and executed in Damascus in 1965. Two years later, Israel achieved victory in the Six Day War, defeating the Syrian Army as a direct result of the information Cohen provided.
“A marvelous film told in the grand tradition of a John Le Carré novel. Shea is simply terrific in the role of Elie Cohen... a top-notch thriller made all the more so by its factual basis.”
- Chicago Sun-Times“A portrait of spies and spying that is as chilling as it is compelling.” - New York Times
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