The Real Life Spies from Netflix's "THE SPY"
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2019
- In this video we take a look at Netflix's latest spy drama "The Spy" based on the life of Eli Cohen portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen and the real life characters of which it is based.
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Great, the comments will be filled with Borat quotes.
Think Story nope more like “I’m first” (I’m first)
“Yes, Gustave Dasté here- Yes, Officer, another orphan” i bet you didn’t see that one coming!... yeah he didn’t have a lot of good quotes in Hugo
Why do u leave out THE DICTATOR???? we were watching this with my husband and kept referring to that one😂😂😂
This was one of the best things I've seen on Netflix. It had me on the edge of my seat. I hope Sacha Cohen does more serious work like this.
u absolutely right! I think he just proved, that he would have been an excellent choice for Freddie Mercury as well...meaning, that he can be serious as well!!!
he was about to play the role of freddie mercury on the movie.. realising its gonna be full of lies.. just to make it more holywood.. he disagree he is great actor.. he won the oscar not for nothing... :)
I was reluctant to watch this show because of Sacha Baron Cohen's previous work, but I'm so glad I did. This show was amazing! I'm so glad he took on this role.
@@gabriellatakacs250 couldn’t agree with you more about Sacha as Freddie!
Great series watched on Netflix just recently with my son was gripping and enthralling loved it ❤❤❤
Those trees planted on Golan heights , that helped in 6 day war.epic
That’s the only thing I knew about him. He said they’d provide shade for the troops.
Dr House - While on a trip to Israel I was fortunate enough to see the trees and Russian bunker.
We heard the story of this great man. There is also a statue of his wife facing Syria looking for her husband to come home.
The various stories Ive heard so far do not contain all the details as told by our Jewish guide. I prefer to believe his rendition of events.
God has blessed me greatly as this is one of my favorite memories of my trip.
Love it and sacha was exceptional.
It gaves me anxiety before he was caught.
Adam Sander was the first choince for the Spy but he refused going for cutting hair in States.
Hahaha true, I was screaming on the TV asking Elli to stop texting or whatever that stupid thing was called.
Sacha Baron Cohen was superb in this. Reminded me of Borat for 5 minutes and was then completely in awe of his magnificent acting. Have to admit he is supremely talented. The spy is the best thing I've seen for ages and a fascinating slice of history.
Sacha was brillant in the series, you won't see any traces of Bruno or Aladeen. He's as serious as cancer in this one and the final epidsode made my palms really sweaty.
After seeing this...i think he would have been nice as Freddie Mercury...
@@gabriellatakacs250 Indeed, well..if not for the "creative differences" he had with the Queen members.
@@k80sg by the way...I just remembered...he couldn't hold himself back...when te shopkeeper introduced his daughter to him...they are going in the door and he asked him: 'She is beautiful! Are u sure is she ur daughter?' I know it's a naive joke, but really reminded me on Aladeen...😂😂
i liked this mini series. pretty intense. wish they expand the story a little more. maybe to like 8 episodes...
I started to watch this show and it is so exciting show :)! Sacha Baron Cohen was brilliant as Eli Cohen ;)
Just watched this on Netflix ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍🏻.
One of the best shows i've seen in a long time. Loved it
This is a really really good show. I like real stories like this on Netflix.
The miniseries was actually good bcoz if they tried to make it a multi-season series they would have had to write a lot fiction and add it to the actual story.
Good series👍👍👍
What a fascinating story. I hadn’t heard of this being on Netflix. But I’ll be checking it out shortly.
Not only is it a good story-it is filmed in quite a nice way also . . .
Everthing on the show is real and happend
I never heard it was named "shallal", but there was such a project aimed at diverting the Jordan's water away from the Sea of Galilee. The ditch dug in The Golan Heights is still there.
Unlike what is said in the show, Israel has other water resources and is not that much dependent on the lake for water.
@Mad Max To answer ya question about the water cutting, yes the Syrians did try to cut water supply.. but Eli Cohen info got to Israel and thus preventing the Syrian from doing so. also I am Israeli and learned about Eli Cohen in Universality. there are lots of documentaries with speculations about Eli end days (aka how he was caught).
@Mad Max As I said, I never heard of it being named Shallal, but the ditch is there. And in any case, it doesn't matter that Eli Cohen found out about this, because in 67' the area was taken anyway.
@Ron Burgundy what do you mean by "filthy prostitution pedo rings"?
@Mad Max there is nothing in history that is called Israel
He should of played Freddie Mercury
Too tall
He was but there was a disagrement unfortunately
General S. Grievous really? Actually true, the more I look at him, the real Freddie Mercury is in between him and Ramin. :/
shakke52 ohh, damn. That sucks so bad, bc his features look a lot more similar to Freddie.
@@DANGER10101 I thought the same thing as I watched The Spy. He might have been too old, though, to play Freddie Mercury.
I was supposed to check out the first episode and see for myself if it is good. I ended up finishing the whole season at 2 am.
The last two episodes though! ❤
Surpringly factual video, as an arabic speaker, reader, writer, much of the information can be found in the arabic language from news articles and books regarding this subject. I really enjoyed this video
Sacha was brilliant in this show. I only saw the character Eli Cohen and Kamel Amin Thaabet. Brilliant screenplay, everything was amazing.
On a side note, RIP Eli Cohen, you’ve done more than enough for humanity. And may Nadia and Maurice succeed in retrieving Eli’s remains.
G.. bless you
Insha'allah!!! Spy or not spy...nobody should keep other's body from their families!!!!
The headwater diversion plan was a real thing, approved by the Arab League in 1964 and a causal factor in the 1967 war. If you tour the prewar border between Israel and Syria you can see how it was supposed to have worked, though it would have been hugely difficult and subject to airstrikes (which is what happened).
The best web series by Netflix ..I have ever watched..greatly influenced by the story & presentation and thank you for focusing on this story
This is not his story. Only bits of it is but a lot of lies.
Sacha Cohen just lived in soul of Eli , man kudos to your elegant portrayal
A Cohen is a Cohen.
This series is so good. I could not stop watching.
Finished this yesterday...Excellent ....
watched it 2x so far...but I think will watch it again...
Very very nice one!!! I was absolutely shocked when I have seen Sasha Baron Cohen making exact same gestures like Freddy Mercury. I know he was, besides Rami Malik another candidate for the role, at this point even that I admire what Rami Malik did in the movie, not so sure anymore, that was the better choice...
In this movie Sasha Baron Cohen proved that he is able to play serious roles, not just more of a comical ones, what he got famous about.
Hope will be similar series as well from him soon...cant wait!!! 😊
Than u for the review! Netflix should pay you!!! I was gonna skip, but after seeing this gonna give it a try! And remember!
it was a good show, i enjoyed it and it made me wanted to do some history homework.
What a hero Eli Cohen was !!! I’m in awe !!! Brilliant acting by Sacha baron cohen !
May Cohen My brother did his Bar Mitzvah presentation on Eli Cohen. Eli’s brother Maurice wrote us a letter and my father had many conversations with him.
That’s amazing! What did his brother say ?
May Cohen He said that he was very happy that we contacted him. Also that he was very pleased that we honored his brother. My father is going to contact him or his brother Abraham.
I did my presentation on Moe Berg. He was a spy for the office of strategic services during World War 2 and went behind enemy lines against the Nazis. He also played Major League Baseball, catcher for the Boston Red Socks. How incredible our people are, the chutzpah.
just fi ished the series. soooo good. such a great man
Thank you for sharing about
Elie Cohen
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Good research! כל הכבוד
Very nice
The part about Mohammed Bin Laden is actually real. Eli indeed met him in one of the Ba'ath parties, and discovered that only bombing/shelling could destroy the heavy equipment because the entire area was mined.
the WHOLE thing is REAL!!! not just that one!!!
Sure it is. You were there too to hear and see it all weren’t you? Will you people ever grow up and stop with your immature fabrications. Please enlighten me with some factual proof. Substantiate your claims with some real legitimate evidence
They can make a whole call of duty about israelo wars but instead they just keep recyclying the same crap
@@gabriellatakacs250 Go back to your cave. this was all fabricated and misleading Israeli agenda
@@edbtzkhud excuse me, but who do you mean by "you people"?
Wow very real series. Love it more..
Quick suggestion: Try watching "The Trial of Chicago 7" next
One of the better spy series I have seen.
Mossad is one of the strongest intelligence agency in the world i think..
was in the 20th century now it's very bad
@@dunkindonut1237 trust me, it's still very strong.
They caught one of them in Algeria back in 2010
Max Sweater not really lol English secret service
huh??? how about Stasi??? or KGB???
Thank you so much for the explicit explanations and background on the characters, either real or composites. It helped me appreciate the program even more. I heard Sacha in another interview mention that there were several scenes that didn't make the movie -- one of him fighting and also sex scene with him. Any idea where to find those outtakes?
Great Series * FYI an interesting connection on Bin Laden. He was a billionaire and began to resent foreign countries especially the US building a military base. It deepened into deep hatred he felt the Americans were acting like they were better than his people and taking the Middle East for granted.
very nice
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sacha Cohen .... he really got into the character ...very good mini series.
3:58 we're both Semites, damn 😔. Like that Israeli dude in Zohan.... "Some people don't like us either"
One of the Arab guys: "Why?"
Israeli dude: "because they think we are you" 🤣🤣🤣😂😂
Spy Netflix series are magnificant and masterpiece of TV series ...
One thing is for sure, Nadia was a ride or die bitch, not only did she remain single after Eli's execution, she also continued to fight for getting his remains back from Syria.
What a tragic but amazing series. Sacha got into the skin of Eli Cohen. A really convincing performance. Loud applause.
Fantastic casting
Great success
Fyi Cohen never held a position in the Syrian Government. There are plenty of articles that point out the twisted facts from this series. With that said, I found it entertaining and I think others should watch it.
I'm just shocked borat acted serious
but that accent from the Dictator...we couldn't miss it...at one point he turned to the shopkeeper: "She is so beautiful... Are you sure it's your daughter?" I had to laugh...I guess he couldn't keep the straight face for the whole show, had to put some sarcasm in this as well...😂 Loved seeing him in this role as well!! What a pity, didnt produce this BEFORE the Freddie Mercury casting started for that movie!!! Got the chills, seeing Freddie "alive" in some of his looks, moves...would have been excellent choice!!!
It's a masterpiece and I'm not just saying that because I'm Israeli
Netflix is too good at creating real incident based series like this...
Narcos
Narcos:Mexico
The Naked Director
U right...its a master piece!!! Doesn't matter who u r, as long as u see someone creating something memorable...its always nice! I love documentaries, it doesn't matter about whom...they still give you the picture of the era when they lived and acted! Eli Cohen, RIP, as the others as well, they knew if they get cut, what is the price! Yet, bravery and patriotism (what we dont know these days about too much) won, which MUST be respected at all the times!
@JUAN ROMAN ??? Sasha Baron Cohen was EXCELLENT in his role, and he was the producer too! If you look at his previous movies, in this one with his serious tone he won absolutely!
@@arjunup9555 עם כל הכבוד לסשה ברון כהן ולסיפור של אלי כהן, זה סדרה חלשה מאוד.
@@user-fd8hn4iv2k ?? Which language is this
GRoss inaccuracy in an otherwise excellent commentary on an excellent series: Eli Cohen/Kamel Amin Thaabet never became Syrian Minister of Defence neither in real life nor in the series.
im interested in the shalal mission
Hi I am from Israel and right now we are at war and there are missiles almost everywhere in the country I am 11 years old and I have seen the series and I understand how strong my country is and I do not come to show because at the moment I am scared and about every five minutes I run to Dim Cohen for my country is one big pride A great series about him and those he has not yet seen to watch him coming!
Imma Borat spy.
👍👍👍👍👍
Watch "the impossible spy" on eli Cohen
Spah sapping mah sentry.
he was a member of israeli gang in Egypt and known to egyptian police and the intelegence. when the syrians showed a photo of him to egyptian intelegance they recognized him immediatelly.
How could he be a member of an Israeli gang when he wasnt Israeli what he was and you can ask the Copts about this was an Egyptian of a different faith and was persecuted I guess you think we should happy being persecuted as Dhimi like our ancestors but not anymore. Just because we live in Israel doesnt mean all of us gave up on the lands of our ancestors who you drove us out of....we will return. My own family came from Yemen a paradise but look how the religious fanatics fucked it up!!! My advise to Muslims...and all faiths..,u want to whorship your God or Allah I respect it in your home or masjid..,not one mention of religion in you government, constitution even your flag...nothing...no religious political parties at all...
@@MrPickledede yes yes, u r right, but...one thing you forget...Religion and Politics they are in hotbed with each other...dont forget the Christian's either, who drink the vine, yet they throw the stone at first!!!! Ugly, very ugly what politics can do with people's mind!!!! Nobody is better than others, that is just a fact! We crying for democracy, and Human rights etc, yet we running through on it with a steal toe boots at first given chance...that is our beautiful human race!!! really???
Him and his family and many others were right wing zionist jews living in egypt who believed in a jewish only state for jews. This is why he was well known to authorities in egypt due to his political beliefs whilst studying and his family was known for luring other jews with the same ideas as them out of egypt and into israel (occupied palestine). These are not true jewish people. Real jewish descendants were black and lived in ethiopia. These current israeli jews all descend from eastern europe, mostly poland, russia and hungary. It was a good and satisfying end to the son of a bitch being hung in public.
@@ambehak4758 why dont you put yourself in the shoes of dhimi living for over a thousand years under Muslim kingoms just for Muslims with no ability to be treated as equal citizens and never accepted as equal citizens or real Egyptians Tunisians etc and only tolerated and sometimes physically attacked and never being able testify in court against them. After hundreds of years wouldnt you want to have a state for Jews where you could have full rights and not just "tolerated"?
@@MrPickledede still playing the victim, i see. If that is the case then why did other jews choose to remain in many muslim nations and continue to live there even up until now? Zionist right wingers claim jews are persecuted to garner further sympathy and support and for animosity to spread towards muslim. Even in iran a country which is demonised there are jews still living there happily. And the hatred for jews is due to themselves being sneaky and sly. The only ones who i felt sorry for are the small percentage who had to flee syria and iraq because of terrorists supported by the US, israel, gulf arabs and their other allies.
Why is there an instagram filter on this show? Looks interesting though
Zionist strategy
@thyartismurder 512 Somebody aint heard of Sarcasm. Emotional Idiot
One problem was why would they train him to have a Damascus accent when his cover story was his father was from Damascus but he never lived there?
Really great series!!!
Spy is spy
I like to move it move it !
The Bin Laden part was for dramatizing it did not happen
meir Halfon thank you
They have to inject bin laden in everything 😂
InfoJunkie totally agree
InfoJunkie It did happen, look it up
Maybe Bin Laden was meeting (future) Admiral General Aladeen (Dictator reference 😂😂😂)
As an Israeli I grew up on Eli Cohen movies, heard former Mossad speaking on him as a child, when taken by school to trips and etc, and read alot about him. One in every few years there is a big Israeli documentary on him. Here in Israel he's nothing short than a national hero. The TV show however, regardless of that, is nothing short of a crime. First, the thesis that Soviet experts caught him is, according to Mossad, an urban legend. It's true that they were sreaching for one, but this is not the case. What expose Eli were few messages that he sent to Israel- and only him and few high ranked officials in Syria knew (like the results of a vote within the Ba'ath party) - the Israeli goverment broadcasted this info before Syria made it official. Deducation of this information led eventually to the understanding that Eli is the one that work for Israel. The "Arab" part is fictitious as well, Eli didn't feel this way. There wasn't a women in the team that operated Eli. I didn't watch the show, just mostly from what you spoilered here. Also, I don't understand why Baron-Cohen was chosen, he doesn't speak Hebrew or Arabic and the standard today is that for quality show (e.g., Narcos) you speak in the original language in which events took place. I watched~ 20 minutes of the first episode and found it highly unreliable in describing Israeli society of the early 60's as I know it from movies that were made back then and from many people who lived then. This is the third great Mossad story that Gideon Raff absolutly destroyed by mixing facts and fiction, by making characther very shalow, by adding unnecessary effects. When you hear the stroies from the people who actually lived them- they are greater than life, when Gideon Raff producing them- they are ruined.
Eli Cohen is a national hero
About Osama Bin Laden and his father, The details mentioned in this article from 2016:
news.walla.co.il/item/2999453
About the Shallal Project, the real name didn't posted, you can read about this here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_over_Water_(Jordan_river)
Nice show. I really enjoyed it but it would have been nicer if they put in what really happened and not just make up stories.
I have seen this series .the job the spy was doing was like a clerical stealing..any clerk can do it .and he got caught so easily. N was not a ideal place to hide his microphone.
I'm not surprised Nadia never remarried. Her parents are Iraqi and Iraqi widows never remarry.
The meeting with Ameen Alhafiz never happened, sweidani was never the head security for Ameen's office ... Bin Ladin wasn't doing that project, they made him into the show to show how bad he looks ... And Eli was cought by accident...
Hey there was at this time a Syrian attempt to divert the main rivers to the sea of Galil as you can read more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_over_Water_(Jordan_river)
I am an Israeli
I learned some of the things I saw on the show
And obviously we can't tell if the whole program is real because it's secret
You can bring a Kamel to wasser you can't make it drink.
Germans are not funny dude 😑. Really? Wasser?
Could be Yiddish
There are couple of things which are not accurate though. For example, there was no syrian embassy in argentina around that time, in fact there were non at all. cohen didnt have a damascene accent - he always covered his accent with the excuse of being a expat/foreigner. also, there was no position as minister of defense, this position in the ranks of syria didnt exist back then. there are rumors that he should ve gotten the state sec position but these are only rumors - eventhough more likely than a non existent rank. also hafez claims he didnt know him. hafez also claims that when he got caught, he realised that he is from egypt, bc of his accent - he said something like the islamic mosque, and thats a thing that only egyptians say. there are a lot of fillers and not real happenings in this series, but it is good. i enjoyed it alot and watched it twice. real good actors, everything was nice. obviously it wasnt filmed in syria - it was filmed in morocco...so the details didnt match as well. afterall would recommend
why you disclose a story of tv series
Watched this series and I can say it's top notch...Eli Cohen Intel contributed to the Israeli capturing the Golan heights in 1967... Truely a hero.
(Throws money at roaches)
Wawawwaywah
Ok, as a fan of spy movies whether fiction or partiality true I'll definitely watch it. Especially since he was Jewish and looked arab. Interesting.
Most Israeli Jews look Arab because they come from Arab countries,..my grandparents were from Yemen and without religious clothing they looked exactly like Muslim Yemenis
MrPickledede no no no... please don’t exaggerate. Not most.... very few... the majority of the Jews in Israel are of European decent. They’re all light skinned blue eyed atheists with homosexual tendencies. Far from the true descendants of Abraham. They eat swine and speak Hebrew with a horrible nonjewish accent
I will say something, what probably I will get criticized by a lot, but some actually they look Arab...and reverse...I know an Arab fellow, who looks like Sasha Baron Cohen...so it just works out I guess...
@@MrPickledede My husband have been stopped by a Yemeni Jewish family, they were actually pulling pictures out of their wallet showing my husband their cousin...who was an absolute mirror image of him, however my husband is Mudjurten Darot tribe...The Yemeni people spread around widely, some ended up in Israel, some in Afrika...so yes easily can be found their counter match...
@@edbtzkhud 😂😂😂😂 u just dont have mercy in ur heart...
The syrian until today does not agree to return us Eli's body
His body is prolly cremated.
He was convicted of espionage . Why shud Syria return his dead corpse back? What did USA do with Osama bin laden's body ?????
Bin Ladens involvement makes in Syria does sense ho
The "no relation" disclaimer is wrong. Baron Cohen actually is a distant relative of Eli Cohen on his father's side.
Bullshit lol. Why invent stuff up?
A DISGRACE WITH MOSSAD'S FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT AN EFFECTIVE RESCUE PLAN
Israel started to drain Lake Huleh at one time, against Arab objections. Google " 'drain lake' Israel" to find the article.
I knew it was MR Cohen Sacha Baron Cohen. Glad too see in a serious roll.
ABSOLUTELY!!!! Finally he is showing the world that he can be serious as well...
Eli : Cultural and military Learnings of Syria for Make intel Benefit Glorious Nation of Israelistan. Great Success!!
Is that Bin ladens father ffs🙏🙏never knew this
it's not on netflix france gonna have to illegally download it unfortunately :/
Lots of Jews and Arabs in Israel look alike, about 50% (and that time, actually more) of Israeli Jewish population is middle eastern/north african. So saying him "looking arab" was a reason for him not fitting in is a bit of a stretch.
Btw corection 9/11 is America mastermind. Gahgahgahgah
How many Israeli secret agents are working in USA government?
America and israel are allies so.i would think not alot. Also out leader is a dumb ass so who knows
How many Neo Nazi's have you been banging latley?!
@@user-pe3hi5wx5o your mom already felt it so go clean your room.
@Amused Outsider spies dont dance in the middle of the street, in daylight, in front of evreyone, i think at least that's what you agree with,
the ones who danced are scum ! but not spies.
@@user-pe3hi5wx5o please you can't even arrange taking a shower once a day.
No.... It's not thé réal story......
6:28 how cringe and naive is this comment
Marna nai tha Syrian log Israel ko bhej'dena tha
Israel ko send kardena tha isko Syrian government
Kafir hai sahi hai par raham karna
Ham logo pe raham kare to Allah hampe raham karta .
GOOGLE: THE ANGRY ARAB: Netflix’s Mossad Propaganda.
yes, the bin laden part is true. read his biography at 14 (im israeli fmr mil intel)
I'm from Syria
That's not true
Its true. Its so true that after 1967 the Syrian regime refused to give back Eli's remains in exchange for their own officers...
It is clear that all truth is historical facts, Israel has paralyzed Syrian fortifications on the Golan Heights thanks to the trees that Eli recommended them to plant, Syria will never tell the truth, because the desecration of Ali's body in public the Creator brought trouble to Syria to this day
OMG I Just finished it and I gotta say this must be one of the worst pieces if television I’ve seen this year. It is a good story, BUT the only good thing about “The Spy” was the costume design and the set design. But the script, direction and ACTING.... OMG, so terrible. Sacha was very cartoonish, he actually made some tense scenes look like comedy. Srsly. That was really bad.
This is 1960 lol all looks fake the guy was newer checked out by other party’s nice show but that’s is not how it works
alot of fake facts
In this video or in the series? The series claims to be inspired by true events. Its not a fact finding documentary
@@saschameurs yes it is not fact-finding but the issue is it tells the story from an Israeli point of view which is not totally correct
@@saschameurs never believe a movie or tv series. Only believe half of what you read in a book.