Mata Hari is a 2017 Russian-Portuguese television series, produced by International production company Star Media in association with Channel One (Russia) and Inter (Ukraine).
The series is dedicated to the story of the legendary spy, fatal temptress and passionate dancer Margareta Zelle, better known under the pseudonym Mata Hari, who was engaged in espionage activities in favor of Germany during the First World War.
Plot
Margaret MacLeod, persecuted by her ex-husband, is deprived of custody of her daughter and abandoned to the mercy of fate with no means of subsistence. She becomes a dancer and is desperate to find any other earnings.
Under the pseudonym Mata Hari, Margaret becomes the favorite of the European elite. For her the doors of luxurious mansions and villas open, each performance produces an incredible furore. But the First World War is coming, which will forever change the course of history.
And Mata Hari can barely foresee what role she is destined to play in the upcoming events.
Cast
in the order of appearance:
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Vahina Giocante
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Career
As ''Marie'' in ''Marie Baie des Anges'' (1997), she is among a group of young wanderers who become enmeshed in love, hate, and violence on the French Riviera.
In 1999 she appea ...
Gérard Depardieu
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Gabriel Astruc
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Biogr ...
* Alcides Estrella as Cyrus
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Anatoly Lobotsky
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as Monsieur Malle
* Viktoriya Isakova as Countess Lydia Kireevskaya
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Nuno Lopes
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as Baron Maximilian the Ride
* Chris Murphy as Hubert Surdier, chauffeur of Kireevskaya
* Rade Šerbedžija as
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Yehezkel Lazarov
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as Don Jesús Costello, Spanish Count
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Christopher Lambert
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Maksim Matveyev
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Aleksei Guskov
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Aleksei Guskov was born to ...
Svetlana Khodchenkova
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Earl ...
as Zlatka Dzhenich
* Alexander Mikhaylov as Pyotr Semikhin
* Makar Zaporizhzhya as ensign Ryabov
* Dmitry Maltsev as Hervé Matin
* Peter Nesterov as Lieutenant Sakhnevich
* Alexander Khoshabaev as Mr Melo
* Ilya Slanevsky as German officer
* Nail Abdrakhmanov as David
* Artem Tsypin as Salinas
* Andrei Tartakov as
Sergey Diaghilev
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