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The spy / a co-production from BR-F, Film i Väst, Nordisk Film, Scope Pictures ; a 4 1/2 film from The Spy production ; produced by Håkon Øverås, Karin Julsrud, Turid Øversveen, Håvard Gjerstad, Catho Bach Christensen ; script by Harald Rosenløw-Eeg & Jan Trygve Røyneland ; directed by Jens Jonsson.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: DVD8357 | MPI Media GroupLanguage: Norwegian, Swedish, German, English Original language: Norwegian, Swedish, German, English Subtitle language: English Publisher: Orland Park, IL : MPI Media Group, [2022]Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Uniform titles:
  • Spionen (Motion picture)
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Theien, Iselin. Sonja Wigert
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Anton Mertens ; editor, Joakim Pietras ; music, Raf Keunen.
Cast: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rolf Lassgård, Alexander Scheer, Damien Chapelle, Edvin Endre, Anders T. Andersen, Erik Hivju, Ingrid Vollan.Summary: Based on a true story, it centers around Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed and popular female movie star, who lives in Stockholm when World War II breaks out. Top Nazi officials want Sonja to help power their propaganda machine through the movies she stars in. When her father is imprisoned by the Nazis, Sonja enlists as a spy for the Swedish secret service before meeting the Nazis in Oslo to flirt her father out of prison. In the process of doing so, Sonja not only falls in love with a Hungarian diplomat but also agrees to become a top Nazi's mistress and spy. Torn between personal politics, the desire to become a star, and stretched thin between her true love, her role as a double agent between the Nazis and the Swedish secret service, Sonja must play the role of a lifetime in complete secrecy and with little hope for survival.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD WORLD SPY Available 33111009968997
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Based on a true story, it centers around Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed and popular female movie star, who lives in Stockholm when World War II breaks out. Top Nazi officials want Sonja to help power their propaganda machine through the movies she stars in. When her father is imprisoned by the Nazis, Sonja enlists as a spy for the Swedish secret service before meeting the Nazis in Oslo to flirt her father out of prison. In the process of doing so, Sonja not only falls in love with a Hungarian diplomat but also agrees to become a top Nazi's mistress and spy. Torn between personal politics, the desire to become a star, and stretched thin between her true love, her role as a double agent between the Nazis and the Swedish secret service, Sonja must play the role of a lifetime in complete secrecy and with little hope for survival.

DVD, region 1; widescreen; Dolby digital 5.1.

Norwegian, Swedish, German and English dialogue ; English subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rolf Lassgård, Alexander Scheer, Damien Chapelle, Edvin Endre, Anders T. Andersen, Erik Hivju, Ingrid Vollan.

Director of photography, Anton Mertens ; editor, Joakim Pietras ; music, Raf Keunen.

Widescreen.

Title from disc surface.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2019.

Based on the book "Sonja Wigert: Et dobbeltliv" by Iselin Theien.

Based on a true story, it centers around Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed and popular female movie star, who lives in Stockholm when World War II breaks out. Top Nazi officials want Sonja to help power their propaganda machine through the movies she stars in. When her father is imprisoned by the Nazis, Sonja enlists as a spy for the Swedish secret service before meeting the Nazis in Oslo to flirt her father out of prison. In the process of doing so, Sonja not only falls in love with a Hungarian diplomat but also agrees to become a top Nazi's mistress and spy. Torn between personal politics, the desire to become a star, and stretched thin between her true love, her role as a double agent between the Nazis and the Swedish secret service, Sonja must play the role of a lifetime in complete secrecy and with little hope for survival.

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