- Nor Haidya Syafira
QUICK INFO
DIRECTOR Gaztellu-Urrutia
CAST Marwan Kenzari, Hannah
Ware, Maisa Abd Elhadi
DISTRIBUTOR Netflix
RELEASE DATE 14 September
2018
RUNNING TIME 114 minutes
If you are a fan of history, political
and biography type of movies,
the film The Angel on Netflix’s
latest thriller must be one of the
must watch movies as the story will
be more intriguing from time to time
to attract their respective viewers. The
movie depicts the true story about an
Egyptian man who spied for Israel in
the 1970s, revisits a turbulent time in
Middle Eastern History. It may not be
recommended for the audiences that
love action-based types of film because
this movie is not a typical spy and
agent movie which involves violence
and gunfights just like Jason Bourne
and James Bond movies.
Based on the adaptation of nonfiction
book Uri Bar-Joseph’s biography
of Ashraf Marwan, The Angel: The
Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel, this
film is more riveting spy thriller than
the true-life tale of Ashraf Marwan,
son in law of the Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser who became a
spy for Israel and helped achieve peace
between the two countries on the verge
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of war.
Directed by Israeli Ariel Vromen,
this film made its debut in early
September 2018 premiering on Netflix.
Approximate budget of $12 Million
and consist of more than one language
such as English, Hebrew and Arabic
are one the reasons that make this
movie more unique so the audiences
can experience and discover multiple
languages being used to align with the
background places of the movies.
This movie builds commendable
tensions but also devious family man
cast by Marwan Kenzari plays the main
protagonist of Ashraf Marwan is shown
at the opening of the scene attempting
to persuade his father-in-law to reach
out support from the U.S rather than
the help from Soviet Union, which he’s
convinced will collapse. The advice
goes unheard by President Nasser
(Waleed Zuaiter), who ridicules him in
front of the other government officials
present during dinner. Nasser also
makes it clear to his daughter Mona
(Maisa Abd Elhadi) that he strongly