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Garbo: The Spy
Directed by
Edmon Roch
2009
88m
Not Rated
Documentary
,
Biography
,
History
7.2
86%
69%
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A compelling account of Juan Pujol, an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of history.
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Cast of Garbo: The Spy
Rupert Allason
Interviewee (as Nigel West)
José Antonio Escoriza
Interviewee
Aline Griffith
Interviewee
Juan Kreisler
Interviewee
joan pujol
himself
Xavier Vinader
Interviewee
Garbo: The Spy Reviews
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Fascinating though it is, the movie is thin on historical materials.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Garbo: The Spy can only suggest who Garcia really was, and why he took it upon himself to fell a tyrant. But even without the fine psychological shading, Garcia's story is a doozy.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
An engrossing documentary that is itself largely a work of the director's imagination.
New York Times
Rachel Saltz
Edmon Roch has a great story to tell in "Garbo the Spy," and he recounts it with the flair of a Hollywood spy movie: "Garbo" is dramatic, entertaining, even funny in parts.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Director Edmon Roch makes some smart conceptual choices that honor his subject's self-invention and mystery.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
Garbo: The Spy delivers the goods, spinning one of the best real-life spy yarns of the war ... If [it] graces PBS or the History Channel-and it should-those networks will suddenly become hip.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
How does one make a documentary about a cipher? In "Garbo the Spy," Roch solves that problem, and magnificently so.
About.com
Jennifer Merin
A real life spy thriller of a documentary: "Garbo" is better than "Mata Hari."
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
"Garbo: the Spy has a lilting tone of cat-and-mouse in its construction. You just might want to see it twice.
Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The story told in "Garbo: The Spy" is so outlandish that you almost feel as if you're watching a mockumentary. But it appears to be entirely true.
Slant Magazine
Glenn Heath Jr.
Using a whirlwind of archival footage, maps, and split screens, Edmon Roch conveys Garcia's reign as Europe's premiere spy in a constantly fluid fashion.
Killer Movie Reviews
Andrea Chase
World War II ended more than half a century ago, but heretofore unknown stories are still surfacing from it. Few, if any, are more fascinating that the eponymous subject of Edmond Roch's stylishly engrossing documentary
Chicago Reader
Cliff Doerksen
Edmon Roch spins a zippy yarn of Pujol's improbable exploits from archival footage, talking heads, and clips from classic espionage dramas.
Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Doc's incredible tale of WWII espionage would likely work better as a feature film.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Pulling Garbo's story from Roch's film requires considerable effort. The director takes a cinema verite approach to historical material, which never works, and forgoes narration.
Village Voice
Karina Longworth
Some of this footage feels like filler, but Roch's concept is strong: He's creating a dialogue between the fictions Pujol created to help win the war and the fictions Hollywood created to memorialize that victory.
Easy Reader (California)
Neely Swanson
Go see for yourself and discover an important moment in time that changed history.
Film Journal International
Doris Toumarkine
Award-winning Spanish documentary about World War II's most infamous double agent eventually evolves into a fascinating expos of highly creative and unconventional espionage work.
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Louis Proyect
Garbo was the man who inspired Graham Greene's "Our Man in Havana", a man who appeared to become a spy mostly out of a sense of opportunism than any idea. Which is not to say that he did not make history.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
Intriguing look at a double agent during World War 2 who some say "saved the world."
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