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Mata Hari (1931) More at IMDbPro »

Mata Hari is a German spy, working in Paris. She has already seduced the Russian general Shubin, and has now set her eyes on lieutenant Rosanov, a a young up-and-coming officer. In order to get her hand on secret documents in his possession, she spends a night with her. But the secret police is on to her, only waiting to get enough evidence to arrest her. Written by Mattias Thuresson <mattias.thuresson@mbox300.swipnet.se>

Paris, 1917. Mata Hari, the notorious erotic dancer, appears here as an exotic, capricious, self-confident temptress who spies for Germany (when she feels like it). Russian General Shubin is besotted with her, knowing himself a traitor; her latest conquest, Russian courier Alexis Rosanoff, meets less encouragement, until she learns that he is to fly home with crucial dispatches. Will she remember that "a spy in love is a tool that has outlived its usefulness"? Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

In 1917, in Paris, the famous dancer Mata Hari has a double life as a German spy, obtaining secrets from French and Russian officers in bed. The chief of the French Secret Service Dubois is unsuccessfully in her tail trying to find proofs to incriminate Mata Hari. The Russian general Serge Shubin has a crush on Mata Hari, but when she meets the young Russian pilot lieutenant Alexis Rosanoff, she sleeps with him to photograph secret documents in his possession. But they fall in love for each other, and the jealousy of her lover Shubin provides the evidences to Dubois to arrest her. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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