Mata Hari (1985)
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Mata Hari
Overview
Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military secrets during the war. She successfully plays both sides against each other until at last her deceptions catch up with her.
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Cast
Sylvia Kristel
Christopher Cazenove
Oliver Tobias
Gaye Brown
Gottfried John
William Fox
Vernon Dobtcheff
Anthony Newlands
Brian Badcoe
Taylor Ryan
Victor Langley
Nicholas Selby
Malcolm Terris
Tutte Lemkow
Crew
Henry Richardson
Menahem Golan
Yoram Globus
David Gurfinkel
Curtis Harrington
Wilfred Josephs
Joel Ziskin
Mata Hari is a beautiful Dutch-born dancer, working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as part of a show. On the train, she meets a young German army officer but any thoughts of romance are cut short when a French agent is murdered on the train, while in her company. She is arrested in Germany but freed when the German officer intervenes. While in Germany war breaks out and she is recruited by German Intelligence to spy on France.
