Leonie, actrice en spionne

In the 1930s and 1940s, actress Leonie Brandt uses her talent to become a brilliant double agent. Featuring improbable adventures, which often turn out to be authentic.

Gertrud Franziska Pütz aka Leonie Brandt (1901-1978) dreamt of becoming an actress. After realising this dream, she gets the chance to play the role of her life: as a spy for the Dutch intelligence in Nazi Germany. After the war, a number of prominent Dutch people were afraid of what Leonie knew. How do you make a film about a mysterious woman of whom there are hardly any pictures or footage? By more or less illustrating the chronology of her miraculous life story with scenes from old movies. Shrouded in a haze of mystery, it is not always clear how ‘real’ or how ‘fictitious’ her life was.

Credits

Director

Producer

Script

Camera

Kostuumontwerp

Sound Design

Set geluid

Montage

Muziek

Postproduction company

Ruud de Bruyn

: Research
Annette Apon
Still photography
Digna Sinke
Production company
SNG Film
TV company
NTR
Distributor NL
Mokum Filmdistributie
Postproduction company
Loods Lux & Lumen

Title: Leonie, actrice en spionne
Year: 2020
Duration : 1 hour, 25 minutes
Category: Long Documentary
Edition: NFF 2020

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