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A Call To Spy (film)
''A Call to Spy'' (also known as ''Liberté: A Call to Spy'') is a 2019 American spy drama film written and produced by Sarah Megan Thomas and directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher. The title is a stylistic variant of . The film is a heavily fictionalized historical drama inspired by the lives of three women who worked as British spies during World War II. In many important respects the plot deviates quite widely from actual events and from their real-life missions. It stars Sarah Megan Thomas, Radhika Apte and Stana Katic. ''A Call to Spy'' had its world premiere on June 21, 2019, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and was released in the United States on October 2, 2020, in theaters and on video on demand. The film received mostly positive reviews. Film critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes said it "overcomes a surprising lack of tension with an overall engaging tribute to an oft-overlooked group of World War II heroes." Synopsis In the beginning of WWII, with Britain beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Dean Pilcher
Lydia Dean Pilcher is an American film and television producer and director and founder of Cine Mosaic, a production company based in New York City. A two time Emmy Award winner, Pilcher was nominated for an Academy Award in 2014 for Cutie & The Boxer, directed by Zachary Heinzerling (winner of 2013 Sundance Directing Award); and Sony Pictures Classics released the Cine Mosaic production of ''The Lunchbox'', directed by Ritesh Batra (winner of 2013 Critics Week Viewers Choice Award at Cannes Film Festival). In 2013, ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' was released by IFC Films, based on the highly acclaimed novel by Mohsin Hamid, starring Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, and directed by Mira Nair. Pilcher has produced over 35 films including ''The Darjeeling Limited'', directed by Wes Anderson; ''Jesus' Son'', directed by Alison Maclean, and eleven films with director Mira Nair including '' The Namesake'', '' Vanity Fair'', '' Amelia'', ''Mississippi Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Of mixed English and American parentage, Churchill was born in Oxfordshire to a wealthy, aristocratic family. He joined the British Army in 1895 and saw action in British India, the Anglo-Sudan War, and the Second Boer War, gaining fame as a war correspondent and writing books about his campaigns. Elected a Conservative MP in 1900, he defected to the Liberals in 1904. In H. H. As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair Brammer
Alistair Daniel Brammer (born 12 November 1988) is an English actor best known for playing Jean Prouvaire in both the 2010 special '' Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary Concert'' and the 2012 musical film ''Les Misérables''. Brammer performed as 'Chris' in the ''Miss Saigon'' 25th anniversary performance. Originally from Exmouth, Devon, Brammer is the youngest of seven children. In 2005, he was one of 35 students from around England chosen to participate in the 20th anniversary celebration of ''Les Misérables'' at Queen's Theatre in the West End. In 2008, while a student at Exeter College, he competed in ''Any Dream Will Do'', and made it to the final 20 contestants, although he was not selected to be on the show. However, ''Any Dream Will Do'' judge Bill Kenwright asked him to appear in the 2008–2009 UK tour of ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'', where he played Zebulon and understudied both Benjamin and Joseph. In 2009, he made his West End debut as Marius ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Alesch
Robert Alesch (6 March 1906 – 25 January 1949) was a Catholic priest and collaborator with Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Biography Alesch was born 6 March 1906 in Aspelt, Luxembourg. He claimed that his father was a Lorraine French patriot, who was tortured by the Germans in 1917. Priesthood Alesch relocated to Freiburg to study theology and was ordained in 1933 and settled in France in 1935. He was named vicar at La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire, parish of Saint-Maur, in the Paris region. From the beginning of the Nazi occupation, he passed himself off as an opponent of the Germans, particularly during his Sunday sermons. He saw the Occupation, however, as an opportunity to earn money and offered his service to the Gestapo in 1941. Collaboration with the Nazis Alesch became an agent of the '' Abwehr'', German intelligence organization. He gained entry into resistance circles and won the confidence of the ethnologist Germaine Tillion, who put him in touch with Jacques ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathilde Ollivier
Mathilde Ollivier (born 20 September 1994) is a French actress, producer and model. She is known for her role in '' Overlord'' (2018). Early life She was born and brought up in Montparnasse, Paris. She studied drama and dance at the Conservatoire de Paris and the Cours Simon before going to the Paris International Academy of Dance. Career Modeling Her modeling career has included appearing in the March 2016 edition of ''Vogue'', the October 2016 edition of ''Purple'', and the April 2017 edition of ''Twin''. Acting On the French stage, Ollivier has appeared in productions of ''Dangerous Liaisons'' and in ''Mistinguett''. Ollivier appeared as Chloe, a French citizen stranded in a Nazi-occupied village ravaged by war, when American troops arrive with a mission in J. J. Abrams's 2018 horror film '' Overlord''. She has filmed 2019's ''Boss Level'' with Mel Gibson and Naomi Watts. She was cast in ''Sister of the Groom'' with Alicia Silverstone in which Silverstone tries to prevent Oll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Barbie
Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German operative of the SS and SD who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance—as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon. After the war, United States intelligence services, which employed him for his anti-communist efforts, aided his escape to Bolivia, where he advised the regime on how to repress opposition through torture. The United States later offered France a formal apology for aiding Barbie's escape from an outstanding arrest warrant. In Bolivia, West German Intelligence Service recruited him. Barbie is suspected of having had a role in the Bolivian coup d'état orchestrated by Luis García Meza in 1980. After the fall of the dictatorship, Barbie no longer had the protection of the government in La Paz. In 1983, he was extradited to France, where he was convicted of c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Rissmann
Marc Rissmann (also spelled Rißmann, born 1980) is a German actor. He has appeared in films like ''Overlord,'' and TV series like ''The Last Kingdom'', ''Game of Thrones'', and ''The Man in the High Castle''. Early life and career Marc Rissmann studied at the College of Dramatic Arts "Ernst Busch" Berlin. On stage, Rissmann performed at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in '' Danton's Death'' In 2009, under the direction of Kay Voges, he played Lysander in the Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. From 2009 to 2011, he was a permanent member of the Theater Magdeburg ensemble. Rissmann has appeared in numerous German series early in his career, including '' Der letzte Bulle'', ''SOKO – Der Prozess'', and '' Binny and the Ghost''. He then broke into the international market, with roles in ''The Last Kingdom'', ''Riviera'', and ''Into the Badlands''. In 2019, he appeared in the eighth season of ''Game of Thrones'' as Harry Strickland, the commander of the mercena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laila Robins
Laila Robins is an American stage, film and television actress. She has appeared in films including ''Planes, Trains and Automobiles'' (1987), ''An Innocent Man'' (1989), ''Live Nude Girls'' (1995), ''True Crime'' (1999), ''She's Lost Control'' (2014), '' Eye in the Sky'' (2015), and '' A Call to Spy'' (2019). Her television credits include regular roles on ''Gabriel's Fire'', ''Homeland'', and '' Murder in the First''. In 2022, she portrays Pamela Milton in the final season of '' The Walking Dead''. Life and career Robins was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of Latvian American parents Brigita (née Švarcs) and Jānis, whose surname was originally spelled Robiņš. Her father was a research chemist. Robins has three sisters. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and attended the Yale School of Drama, earning a master of fine arts. Robins has been in a relationship with the actor Robert Cuccioli since 2000. They co-starred in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Roukin
Samuel Roukin (ROO-kin; born 15 August 1980) is an English actor and DJ. He is best known for his role as John Graves Simcoe in the series, '' Turn: Washington's Spies'' and Simon "Ghost" Riley in ''Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.'' Early life and education Roukin was born in Southport, England, and currently lives in Los Angeles. He displayed an interest in drama from an early age. He completed secondary school at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby where he was involved in many school productions. He goes back to the school to give acting workshops to pupils involved in drama and English. Roukin went on to train at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2003. Roukin finished filming '' Bright Star'', directed by Jane Campion and based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Career Roukin starred in the 2008 film ''Happy-Go-Lucky'' as the love interest of the main character, Poppy (played by Sally Hawkins). ITV's two-part dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Buckmaster
Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster (11 January 1902 – 17 April 1992) was the leader of the French section of Special Operations Executive and was awarded the ''Croix de Guerre''. Apart from his war service, he was a corporate manager with the French branch of the Ford Motor Company, in the postwar years serving in Dagenham. He wrote two memoirs about his service with the Resistance during World War II. Early life and career Maurice Buckmaster was born on 11 January 1902 at Ravenhill, Brereton, Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, the son of Eva Matilda (daughter of R. B. Nason, M.D., of Nuneaton, Warwickshire) and Henry James Buckmaster, a company director running a brewery. He grew up at Marsham Lodge, Gerrards Cross. He was educated at Eton College. He showed an academic bent and gained an exhibition to study Classics at the University of Oxford, but was unable to take this up as his father went bankrupt. After financial problems in early 1912, his father received orders under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany. During Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Europe, it was frequently referred to as Hitlerism (german: Hitlerfaschismus). The later related term " neo-Nazism" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideas which formed after the Second World War. Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and the use of eugenics into its creed. Its extreme nationalism originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist '' Völkisch'' movement which had been a prominent aspect of German nationalism since the late 19th century, and it was strongly influenced by the paramilitary groups that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noor Inayat Khan
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially those occupied by Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from the United Kingdom. As an SOE agent under the codename Madeleine she became the first female wireless operator to be sent from the UK into occupied France to aid the French Resistance during World War II. Inayat Khan was betrayed and captured, and executed at Dachau concentration camp. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her service in the SOE, the highest civilian decoration for gallantry in the United Kingdom. Early life Noor Inayat Khan was born on 1 January 1914, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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