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	Director:	Curtis Harrington
	Written by:	Joel Zisken
	Music by	Wilfred Josephs
	Produced by	Yoram Globus (executive) Menahem Golan (executive) Rony Yacov
	Cast: (in credit order)	Sylvia Kristel (Mata Hari) Christopher Cazenove (Karl von Bayerling) Oliver Tobias (Captain Ladoux) Gaye Brown (Fraeulein Doktor) Gottfried John (Wolff) William Fox (II) (Maitre Clumet) Anthony Newlands (Baron Joubert) Vernon Dobtcheff (Prosecutor) Brian Badcoe (General Messigny) Tutte Lemkow (Ybarra) Taylor Ryan (Contessa) Tobias Rolt (Jean Prevost) Victor Langley (Colonel Michaud) Nicholas Selby (Von Jagow) Malcolm Terris (Von Krohn) Carlos Sutton (Captain Schlesser) Neil Robinson (Hotel Manager) Derek de Lint (Handsome Traveller) Agnes David (Maid)

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The film stars Sylvia Kristel as an exotic dancer Mata Hari, an enigmatic woman of Javanese-Dutch ancestry.     Before WW I, Mata Hari goes by train on tour in Berlin. Here she has supper with two boring men and suddenly sees a handsome man, who keeps his eyes glued on Mata, with whom she is soon having a intimacy. Then someone shoots in the man's back, he dies before Mata Hari's eyes. Derek de Lint plays the man. The man appears by the German agent and his death in Mata Hari's arms causes suspicion in the German secret service. They begin to blackmail her, forcing to work for Germany. She refuses. When WW I breaks out, Mata Hari appears involved in a political intrigue of two countries. The French and German secret services tries to use her. She is having a sexual relationship with a French captain Ladoux (Oliver Tobias) and a German captain Karl Von Byerling (Christopher Cazenove). Finally she is enlisted in the German secret service thanks to the efforts of Karl. The French secret service arrest her. Mata Hari is tried and sentenced to death. Ladoux does not want, that Mata Hari should be lost, but his is explained, that execution of the brilliant spy will stiffe the spirit of the French army. He agrees. The French soldiers shoot the unfortunate dancer. In some years, the colonel Ladoux comes in the same museum, in which he has seen Mata Hari for the first time and meets Karl, who has remained alive as well. They are embraced, as the old friends. [Filmography] [Gallery] [Video clips] [Catalogue] [Home]