In the 1960s, Israeli clerk-turned-secret agent Eli Cohen goes deep undercover inside Syria on a perilous, years-long mission to spy for Mossad.
Dramaspybased on novel or bookmossadsecret missionespionagepoliticsbased on true storyminiserieshistorical1960smale spypoliticalNetflix
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Sacha Baron CohenEli Cohen / Kamel Amin Thabeth
- Noah EmmerichDan Peleg
- Hadar Ratzon RotemNadia Cohen
- Alexander SiddigAhmed Suidani
- Waleed ZuaiterAmin al-Hafez
- Nassim LyesMa'azi Zaher Ad-Din
- Moni MoshonovJacob Shimoni
- Yael EitanMaya
- Alona TalJulia Schneider
Crew
- Gideon RaffCreator
- Itai NeemanDirector of Photography
- Guillaume RousselOriginal Music Composer
- Simon HermanEditor
- Alain GoldmanProducer
- Cédric IlandProducer
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Seasons
- Limited Series6 eps · 2019
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