The Beautiful Spy
The Beautiful Spy () is a 2013 historical-thriller television film set in Nazi Germany shortly before the outbreak of World War II inspired by the few facts known about Vera von Schalburg. Plot. Vera von Schalburg (portrayed by Valerie Niehaus) is a German prostitute working in Nazi Germany. In 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Schalburg is arrested by the Berlin police. She is offered to work as a spy for the "Abwehr", the German military intelligence service, instead of facing jail time. Completely unaware of the secret war preparations being conducted by  her government, and unwilling to leave her teenage son who later joins the Hitler Youth, she accepts the offer. She quickly meets and befriends Wilhelm Canaris (portrayed by Peter Prager), chief of the "Abwehr", and is selected for a top-secret mission to Great Britain. When Schalburg learns of innocent Polish civilians being killed on mass in German-occupied Poland, she wants to leave. To prevent this, "Abwehr" agents led by Walther Luthmann (portrayed by Jochen Nickel) kidnaps her son, but Schalburg manages to track him down and go into hiding with him. Realizing that Germany has lost the war , Schalburg moves to farm far away from the fighting with a male friend who becomes a sort of foster father for her son. Even though the war is long over by now, Luthmann, after confronting Schalburg at the farm, kills her for betraying the "Abwehr" during the war while in disguise as a common civilian. Soundtrack. The musical score was written by British composer, conductor and orchestrator Nic Raine.