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I Was a Spy is a British film of genre Drama directed by Victor Saville released in USA on 15 december 1933 with Madeleine Carroll

I Was a Spy (1933)

I Was a Spy
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Released in USA 15 december 1933
Length 1h29
Directed by ,    
Genres Drama,    War,    Thriller,    Spy
Rating65% 3.283373.283373.283373.283373.28337

I Was a Spy is a 1933 British thriller film directed by Victor Saville and starring Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, and Conrad Veidt. Based on the 1932 memoir I Was a Spy by Marthe Cnockaert, the film is about a Belgian woman who nurses injured German soldiers during World War I while passing intelligence to the British.

I Was a Spy was also the first film dubbed in Poland (while there were earlier examples of films dubbed in Polish, they were recorded in Paramount studio in Joinville, France), released in 1935 as Siostra Marta jest szpiegiem, starring Lidia Wysocka as Martha Cnockhaert's voice. The screenplay was written by Edmund Gwenn.

Synopsis

In German occupied Belgium 1914, a Belgian woman employed by the Allies nurses injured soldiers and falls in love with a German commandant.

Actors

Madeleine Carroll

(Martha Cnockhaert)Herbert Marshall

(Stephan)Conrad Veidt

(Commandant Oberaertz)Edmund Gwenn

(Burgomaster)Gerald du Maurier

(Doctor)
And :
Donald Calthrop
Martita Hunt
Nigel Bruce
George Merritt
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