

A Call to Spy
2020-10-02 · 124 min · ★ 6.8
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
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- Directors
- Lydia Dean Pilcher
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- SMT Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
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- Released
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Sarah Megan ThomasVirginia Hall
Stana KaticVera Atkins
Radhika ApteNoor Inayat Khan
Linus RoacheMaurice Buckmaster
Rossif SutherlandDr. Chevain
Samuel RoukinChristopher
Laila RobinsPirani
Marc RissmannKlaus Barbie
David SchaalColonel Gubbins
Matt SalingerWilliam Donovan
Andrew RichardsonAlfonse
Rob HeapsPaul
Joe DoyleFather Robert Alesche
Mathilde OllivierGiselle
Lola PashalinskiHilda Atkins
Alistair BrammerLeo Marks
Marceline HugotSister Francis
Sigrid OwenEmilie
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