A little-known slice of history is given a rousing retelling in this thriller about a Scandinavian film star’s infiltration missionFor British history buffs interested in what the rest of northern Europe got up to during the second world war, The Spy would makes a solid double bill alongside Black Book, Paul Verhoeven’s similarly sexed-up tale of Dutch resistance.
Directed by a Swede, Jens Jonsson, and scripted by two Norwegians, Harald Rosenlow-Eeg and Jan Trygve Royneland, it turns the (mostly) true adventures of Norwegian-Swedish actress Sonja Wigert (Ingrid Bolso Berdal), into a rollicking, border-hopping espionage thriller.
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