It may be a documentary but this film feels more like a James Bond spy thriller. Ze’ev Gur-Arie was one of the Mossad’s most fabled agents.  Masquerading as a high-living, former Nazi officer, this German-born Israeli collected vital information in Egypt in the early 1960’s concerning the development of chemical weapons. Espionage, which is necessarily based on deceit and deception, inevitably exacts a high toll on a spy’s family life, especially when there is a second family involved in an enemy country.

A speaker after the movie
Meet Greg Mathis, a Silicon Valley Film Festival volunteer, who will speak after the film and take audience questions about his own experience in military intelligence.

Underwritten by Kennon and Robert Hudson

Director: Nadav Schirman
Writer: Nadav Schirman
Country: Israel & Germany
Language: English and Hebrew (with subtitles)
Website: http://www.israelifilms.co.il/40420/The-Champagne-Spy
Running time: 90 minutes
Format: 35mm
Year: 2007
Genre: Documentary

Find more details at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488282/

2007 won Award of the Israeli Film Academy:
   Best Documentary Nadav Schirman

2007 Nominated European Film Awards:
   Best Documentary Award: Nadav Schirman 

2008 Palm Springs International Film Festival
   Won John Schlesinger Award:Nadav Schirman

2008 RiverRun International Film Festival:
   Won Best Editing