Garbo: The Spy

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Audience Member I thought I knew a lot about WW2, and having just watched the Complete Timeline of WW2, seen this and thought I'd watch. Fascinating, engrossing, extraordinary. The 3 words that spring to mind. Only downside was I cannot find what movie the clips are from that pepper the show. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member 6/15/16 Sundance Doc Club Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Saw GARBO: THE SPY last night. Quite amazing story about a double agent who helped the Allies take Normandy and defeat those nasty Nazis. The film incorporates found footage and film clips with a few talking heads. A staggering tale that once again shows how complex and fascinating WWII was. Unfortunately, the film just didn't grab me. The footage was used amazingly well but the talking heads didn't compliment the action. I was left cold. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Netflix, #8 On Ebert's list of best of 2011 Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member It seems I am batting .000 in the realm of documentaries recently. "Garbo: The Spy" told a really fascinating story really poorly. Edmon Roch sets out to tell the story of a particularly creative double-agent, working for the British and against the Nazis in WWII. However instead of setting the record straight, we are handed the (admittedly creatively brilliant) machinations of one code name Garbo as truth with bits and pieces slowly being revealed as a falsehood or an elaborate concoction of a scheme to bamboozle the Germans. Unfortunately it seems that the best way to comb through this all would have been more matter-of-factly. A phenomenal story poorly told, Garvo is extraordinarily fascinating in substance but horribly lacking in coherent presentation. There is enough made straight by the end such as to justify seeing the film, but not enough such as to preclude the necessity of serious reading after the film ended to try and understand what actually happened. Whether or not it was sensationalized a but is abyone's guess - the whole thing was beyond belief. However I also wonder how egregiously inept Nazi intelligence was, since this film made German intelligence out to be something of a Three Stooges act. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member The history is amazing. The treatment; less than. Well worth viewing for the information but only as well made as a middling History Channel project. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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