Please join JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center for a LIVE Q&A at 7pm on Thursday, January 14. The purchase of your ticket includes the discussion.
Moderated by Rick Salomon, Vice President of the Board of Directors, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, the discussion will include the film’s star and Producer, Sarah Megan Thomas, Director Lydia Dean Pilcher, and 20-year CIA officer Kristin Wood. Wood spearheaded a variety of the Agency’s initiatives, including serving as a briefer the President’s Daily Brief to Vice President Cheney and leading a team within the Office of Terrorism Analysis in the Counterterrorism Center (CTC) in examining Al Quaeda ties in the Middle East as the nation prepared for war.
Questions in advance may be sent to cjff@jccchicago.org
As Great Britain’s forces were stretched thin during World War II, Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) began to enlist women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance. Spymistress Vera Atkins, later the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond franchise, was the chief recruiter for this secret army. Atkins selected two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall, an American journalist from Baltimore hampered by a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan, a wireless officer of Indian descent and an avowed pacifist. Together, they worked to undermine the Nazi regime in France. The courage, sacrifices and grit of these three women helped quell the Nazi occupation – and ultimately turned the tide of the war.
- Year2020
- Runtime123 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- RatingPG-13
- DirectorLydia Dean Pilcher
- CinematographerRobby Baumgartner & Miles Goodall
- EditorPaul Tothil
- Production DesignKim Jennings
- ComposerLillie Rebecca McDonough
Please join JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center for a LIVE Q&A at 7pm on Thursday, January 14. The purchase of your ticket includes the discussion.
Moderated by Rick Salomon, Vice President of the Board of Directors, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, the discussion will include the film’s star and Producer, Sarah Megan Thomas, Director Lydia Dean Pilcher, and 20-year CIA officer Kristin Wood. Wood spearheaded a variety of the Agency’s initiatives, including serving as a briefer the President’s Daily Brief to Vice President Cheney and leading a team within the Office of Terrorism Analysis in the Counterterrorism Center (CTC) in examining Al Quaeda ties in the Middle East as the nation prepared for war.
Questions in advance may be sent to cjff@jccchicago.org
As Great Britain’s forces were stretched thin during World War II, Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) began to enlist women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance. Spymistress Vera Atkins, later the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond franchise, was the chief recruiter for this secret army. Atkins selected two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall, an American journalist from Baltimore hampered by a wooden leg, and Noor Inayat Khan, a wireless officer of Indian descent and an avowed pacifist. Together, they worked to undermine the Nazi regime in France. The courage, sacrifices and grit of these three women helped quell the Nazi occupation – and ultimately turned the tide of the war.
- Year2020
- Runtime123 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- RatingPG-13
- DirectorLydia Dean Pilcher
- CinematographerRobby Baumgartner & Miles Goodall
- EditorPaul Tothil
- Production DesignKim Jennings
- ComposerLillie Rebecca McDonough