Mata Hari is a 2017 Russian-Portuguese television series, produced by International production company Star Media in association with
Channel One (Russia) and
Inter
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* FK Inter Bratislava, a form ...
(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
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
.
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:
*
Vahina Giocante as
Mata Hari
Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed ...
*
John Corbett
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as Rudolph MacLeod
*
Gérard Depardieu as Father Bernard
*
Oisín Stack
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Early life
Stack was born to an Irish father and French mother, and ...
as
Gabriel Astruc
* Alcides Estrella as Cyrus
*
Anatoly Lobotsky as Monsieur Malle
*
Viktoriya Isakova
Viktoriya Evgenievna Isakova (russian: Викто́рия Евге́ньевна Иса́кова; born 12 October 1976) is a Russian theater and film actress. Her film credits include ''Tochka (2006)'', '' The Island'' (2006) and '' Mirrors'' ...
as Countess Lydia Kireevskaya
*
Nuno Lopes as Baron Maximilian the Ride
* Chris Murphy as Hubert Surdier, chauffeur of Kireevskaya
*
Rade Šerbedžija
Rade Šerbedžija ( sr-Cyrl, Раде Шербеџија, ; born 27 July 1946) is a Croatian actor, director and musician. He is known for his portrayals of imposing figures on both sides of the law. He was one of the best known Yugoslav actors i ...
as
industrialist Émile Étienne Guimet
Émile Étienne Guimet (2 June 183612 August 1918) was a French industrialist, traveler and connoisseur.
He was born at Lyon and succeeded his father Jean-Baptiste Guimet in the direction of his "Ultramarine, artificial ultramarine" factory. H ...
*
Alexander Petrov as Mathieu Niwa, nicknamed "Knife", a thief and a murderer
*
Rutger Hauer
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Hauer's career began in 1969 with the title role in the Dutch television series ' ...
as Stolbakken, Judge
*
Yehezkel Lazarov as Don Jesús Costello, Spanish Count
*
Christopher Lambert as Gustav Kramer
*
Kseniya Rappoport
Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (russian: link=no, Ксе́ния Алекса́ндровна Раппопо́рт; born 25 March 1974) is a Russian actress. She graduated in 2000 from Saint Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts and was immedi ...
as
Elizabeth Shragmuller
* Carlotto Cotta as Theophile Rastignac
*
Maksim Matveyev as Vladimir Maslov, the captain
*
Mariya Fomina as Vera Semihina
*
Aleksei Guskov as
Georges Ladoux, the head of the
Deuxième Bureau
The Deuxième Bureau de l'État-major général ("Second Bureau of the General Staff") was France's external military intelligence agency from 1871 to 1940. It was dissolved together with the Third Republic upon the armistice with Germany. Howeve ...
*
Svetlana Khodchenkova 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
* Danila Dunaev as Pierre Lenoir
* Ruslan Dzhaybekov as
André Citroën
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* Alexander Ryazantsev as
Nikolai Alexandrovich Lokhvitsky, Major-General of the
Russian Expeditionary Force
* Natalia Gudkova as Michelle Riva
* Mikhail Dorozhkin as Salbarbe
*
Igor Ivanov
Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov (born 23 September 1945) is a Russian politician who was Foreign Minister of Russia from 1998 to 2004 under both the Yeltsin and the Putin administrations.
Early life
Ivanov was born in 1945 in Moscow to a Russian fathe ...
as Maître Clunet, lawyer
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, tt4110246
Russian drama television series
Russian biographical films
2017 Russian television series debuts
2017 Russian television series endings
2017 Portuguese television series debuts
2010s Portuguese television series
Sociedade Independente de Comunicação original programming
Channel One Russia original programming
Russian biographical television series