MATA HARI & MADEMOISELLE DOCTEUR

In 1916, the dancer Mata Hari meets the German agent Elisabeth Schragmüller (known as “Mademoiselle Docteur”) who trains her to become a spy behind enemy lines in France during the First World War. The two women couldn’t be more different from one another: Mata Hari was the erotic, enigmatic seductress, while Mademoiselle Docteur was an analytical political scientist and one of the first women in Germany to receive a doctorate. The legendary double agent, who was executed in France in 1917 at the age of 41 on charges of double espionage and high treason, is played by Natalia Wörner in this feature film directed by Kai Christiansen for public broadcaster ARD.