garbo: the spy
A great story…recount[ed]…with the flair of a Hollywood spy movie: "Garbo" is dramatic, entertaining, even funny in parts.
garbo: the spy
To the Nazis he was code name: Alaric.To the British he was simply Garbo.To the world he was a mystery.But 30 years after the facts and fiction, the cloak of mystery that kept him hidden and tied to Alaric and Garbo finally started to unravel. Nigel West, noted English Spy novelist, started out on a journey to expose the truth about the man born Juan Pujol and uncovered a story so amazing that it could only be true. The man who the world thought to be dead and buried in Angola in 1949, a man that died a hero to both the British and the Nazis, looked pretty spry when discovered in South America 35 years after his burial. This is the story of Garbo.
Genre
Documentary
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Runtime
86
Language
English
Director
Edmon Roch
FEATURED REVIEW
G. Allen Johnson,San Francisco Chronicle
Documentarian Edmon Roch has an intriguing problem: How does one make a documentary about a cipher? In "Garbo the Spy," Roch solves that problem, and magnificently so.I'm a World War II buff, yet I hadn't heard of Juan Pujol Garcia before seeing this film, which was first shown in the Bay Area at ...
Played at
Lumiere Music Hall 11.25.11 - 12.01.11
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