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Espionage is a 1929 French silent war spy film directed by Jean Choux and starring Lilian Constantini, Véra Sherbane and Thérèse Reignier. It was inspired by the story of the First World War spy Louise de Bettignies active in German-occupied Belgium. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gaston David. It is also known by the longer title Espionnage ou la guerre sans armes.

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Espionage (French: Espionnage) is a 1929 French silent war spy film directed by Jean Choux and starring Lilian Constantini, Véra Sherbane and Thérèse Reignier. It was inspired by the story of the First World War spy Louise de Bettignies active in German-occupied Belgium. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gaston David. It is also known by the longer title Espionnage ou la guerre sans armes.

Cast

Lilian Constantini as Geneviève de Vendeville

Véra Sherbane as Maria Vandamme

Thérèse Reignier as Madame Estienne

Jean Choux as L'officier allemand

Jean Dalbe as Charles

Edmée Colson as La contre-espionne

Fritz Karr as Prince Galitzine

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Notable quotes

“Because something is not what it is said to be, Ma'am, does not mean it is a fake. It may just have been wrongly attributed.”
— Alan Bennett, in A Question of Attribution; said by Anthony Blunt
“I played it slightly tongue-in-cheek because I never quite believed that James Bond was a spy because everybody knew him, they all knew what he drank. He’d walk into a bar and it would always be, 'Ah, Commander Bond, martini, shaken not stirred.’ Spies are faceless people.”
— Roger Moore in "Roger Moore interview: 'I was never very confident with girls'" by Tim Auld, The Telegraph, 23 May 2017.
“O children of Adam, let not the devil seduce you, as he expelled your parents from the garden, pulling off from them their clothing that he might show them their shame. He surely sees you, he as well as his host, from whence you see them not. Surely We have made the devils to be the friends of those who believe not.”
— Quran, Chapter 7 (Al-A’raf) : 27
“No spy, however astute, is proof against relentless interrogation. Some unforseen circumstance, some trivial lapse, is pounced upon, exploited by the interrogator, until a break is complete.”
— Lt-Col Robin Stephens in Camp 020: MI5 and the Nazi spies (2000) by the Public Record Office, p. 105
“Indeed, there may well be many who will agree that death by hanging is almost too good for a sailor who will encompass the death of thousands of his shipmates without qualm.”
— Lt-Col Robin Stephens, Camp 020: MI5 and the Nazi spies (2000) by the Public Record Office, p. 198
“To MI5, if you steam this open you are dirty buggers.”
— Anonymous letter sent to a prominent member of the Communist Party of Great Britain; quoted in "Spycatcher" (1987) by Peter Wright, p. 46

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