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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
(in credits order) | 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 |
| Assi Hanegbi | ... | Israeli Officer (Kibbutz) |
| Wahabi Hasson | ... | Egyptian Police Inspector |
| Shmuel Shiloh | ... | Rabbi |
| Hamdi El-Asmar | ... | Hadj |
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| Jim Goddard | |||
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| Douglas Livingstone | ||
| Marty Ross | ||
Produced by | |||
| Harvey Chertok | .... | executive producer | |
| Sarah Frank | .... | producer | |
| David Goldstein | .... | producer | |
| George Massey | .... | producer | |
| Peter Wolfes | .... | associate producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Richard Hartley | |||
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| Colin Munn | |||
| Noel Probyn | |||
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| Ken Pearce | |||
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| Humphrey Jaeger | |||
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| Brian Kane | |||
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| Irene Whilton | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Caroline Noble | .... | makeup designer | |
Production Management | |||
| Jacinta Peel | .... | production manager | |
Art Department | |||
| Iain Greenway | .... | graphic designer | |
Sound Department | |||
| Ken Hains | .... | dubbing mixer | |
| John Murphy | .... | sound recordist | |
| Chris Swanton | .... | dubbing editor | |
| John Taylor | .... | boom operator | |
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| Andy Lazell | .... | visual effects designer | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Ian Buckley | .... | grip | |
| Yoni Hamenachem | .... | still photographer | |
| Peter Robinson | .... | chief electrician | |
Other crew | |||
| Nachson Akselrad | .... | production team: Israel | |
| Asher Asherov | .... | production team: Israel | |
| Cecilia Coleshaw | .... | production assistant | |
| Victor Kamar | .... | arab advisor | |
| Yoram Kislev | .... | production team: Israel | |
| Zohar Laskov | .... | production team: Israel | |
| David Lipkind | .... | production team: Israel | |
| Jonathan Lucas | .... | dialogue coach | |
| Yoram Shayer | .... | production team: Israel | |
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- Home Box Office Home Video (HBO)
- Janson Media (2006) (worldwide) (DVD)
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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.