The Beautiful Spy

The Beautiful Spy

Soundtrack cover of The Beautiful Spy
Directed by Miguel Alexandre
Produced by Katja Kirchen (executive producer)
Frank Kaminski (creative producer)
Robert Opratko (production manager)
Written by Annette Hess (screenplay)
Starring Valerie Niehaus
Fritz Karl
Jochen Nickel
Ron Donachie
Noah Huntley
Music by Nic Raine
Edited by Marcel Peragine
Release dates
 27 December 2013
Running time
 104 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

The Beautiful Spy (German language: Die Schöne Spionin) is a 2013 historical-thriller television film set in Nazi Germany shortly before the outbreak of World War II inspired by the few facts known about Vera von Schalburg.[1][2][3][4]

Plot

Vera von Schalburg (portrayed by Valerie Niehaus) is a German prostitute working in Nazi Germany. In 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Schalburg is arrested by the Berlin police. She is offered to work as a spy for the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, instead of facing jail time. Completely unaware of the secret war preparations being conducted by her government, and unwilling to leave her teenage son who later joins the Hitler Youth, she accepts the offer.

She quickly meets and befriends Wilhelm Canaris (portrayed by Peter Prager), chief of the Abwehr, and is selected for a top-secret mission to Great Britain. When Schalburg learns of innocent Polish civilians being killed on mass in German-occupied Poland, she wants to leave. To prevent this, Abwehr agents led by Walther Luthmann (portrayed by Jochen Nickel) kidnaps her son, but Schalburg manages to track him down and go into hiding with him.

Realizing that Germany has lost the war, Schalburg moves to farm far away from the fighting with a male friend who becomes a sort of foster father for her son. Even though the war is long over by now, Luthmann, after confronting Schalburg at the farm, kills her for betraying the Abwehr during the war while in disguise as a common civilian.

Soundtrack

The musical score was written by British composer, conductor and orchestrator Nic Raine.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Die Schöne Spionin". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Die Spionin (The Beautiful Spy) (Nic Raine)". Moviescore Media. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Die Spionin (The Beautiful Spy) (Nic Raine)". Filmscore Monthly. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "The Spy". Amazon. Retrieved 27 June 2015.

External links

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