Call to Spy, A

[Netflix Only] Lydia Dean Pilcher's compelling, poignant, factually inspired, multifaceted, well-acted, superbly written, unpredictable, star-studded (Linus Roache, David Schaal, Matt Salinger, Joe Doyle, Mathilde Ollivier, Samuel Roukin, Andrew Richardson, Rob Heaps, Marceline Hugot, and Laila Robins), 123-minute, 2019 historical thriller that focuses on Jewish leader Vera Atkins (Stana Katic) in London in 1941 working in Winston Churchill's new Special Operations Executive (OSE) spy agency who recruits, leads, and trains a group of female agents, including American amputee Virginia Hall (Sarah Megan Thomas) and Muslim Indian Noor Inayat Khan (Radhika Apte), for highly dangerous covert operations in France to form a resistance group (Rossif Sutherland, et al.) to fight against and undermine the Nazis such as Klaus ‘the Butcher of Lyon' Barbie (Marc Rissmann).
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