The Impossible Spy trailer Starring John Shea & Eli Wallach

The Impossible Spy
Distributed by the National Center for Jewish Film
Available for purchase & screenings: http://jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/impossiblespy.htm

UK, 1987, 96 minutes, color
Directed by Jim Goddard

This riveting feature film tells the incredible but true story of Elie Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jew and top Israeli intelligence recruit whose obsession with his mission as a double agent drove him to his death. Cohen, an accountant with a photographic memory, left his pregnant wife to join the Mossad's Syrian section in 1959 and quickly infiltrated the highest ranks of the ruling Syrian Baath party.

On the eve of his nomination as Syria's Deputy Minister of Defense, Cohen was uncovered and executed in Damascus in 1965. Two years later, Israel achieved victory in the Six-Day War, defeating the Syrian Army as a direct result of the information Cohen provided.

Starring Emmy Award winner John Shea as Eli Cohen and the incomperable Eli Wallach as his Mossad handler.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Impossible Spy
• Israel
• NCJF
• Jewish Film
• Six-Day War