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28 November 1987 (USA)
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Young Israeli husband Eli Cohen is recruited by the Mossad in the early 1960's and sent to Syria. Telling...
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A so-so movie that I find myself watching again and again
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Shea | ... | Eli Cohen |
 | Eli Wallach | ... | Yacov |
 | Sasson Gabai | ... | General Haled |
 | Michal Bat-Adam | ... | Nadia Cohen |
| Rami Danon | ... | Amram |
| Chaim Girafi | ... | Salloum (as Haim Gerafi) |
| Jack Cohen | ... | Assan |
| Anat Barzilai | ... | Galela |
| Yossi Kenan | ... | Nassim |
| Judith Milo | ... | Madame Massim |
| Victor Kamar | ... | Major Massim |
| Fahami Shishtawi | ... | Syrian Border Captain |
| Shlomo Sadan | ... | Syrian Colonel |
| Jonathan Cherchi | ... | Syrian Radio Operator |
| Yitzhak Aloni | ... | Mossad Radio Operator |
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96 min
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One who is not interested in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, sympathetic to the Israeli cause, and inspired by Eli Cohen's sacrifice for that cause, will probably find this movie boring. One comes away from watching this movie, not thinking about what a great movie he just watched, but about the life of Eli Cohen. And perhaps that's what the filmmakers intended.
I can't think of anything particularly good to say about the movie. It is somewhat slow-paced, and no performances particularly stand out. But I find myself going back and watching it again and again, because the story it tells is so interesting to me. While the acting and production do not draw attention to themselves with their impressiveness, neither do they distract from the story due to poor quality; everything about the movie is unspectacular but competent.
The only complaint I can make is about the portrayal of Cohen's wife. She comes across so annoyingly that in the end, after her husband's death, when she encounters the Mossad official who lied to her repeatedly, took her husband away and sent him on the mission that resulted in his death, one finds oneself sympathizing with the spy-master because of the awkwardness of the situation, rather than with the aggrieved widow because of her loss.