An ambitious historian unmasks the identity of the Middle East’s greatest spy – prompting Israel and Egypt to fiercely claim him as their man, and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to the spy’s mysterious death.
‘It was 2018 and I had just finished ‘The Outsider’, when Salon Pictures sent me the book of the same name to read. I was interested in the question of Aaron Bergman’s accountability in the death of Egyptian Ashraf Marwan’.
Archive, interviews and reconstruction bring to life this intricate and multi-layered true-crime story.