The Last Spy (2025)

Interesting facts

The Last Spy is a 2025 German-American documentary film written and directed by Katharina Otto-Bernstein. The film centers on Peter Sichel (1922–2025), a German-born Jewish refugee who served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II and later became a senior officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War.

Production

The Last Spy was written and directed by Katharina Otto-Bernstein and produced by Otto-Bernstein, Oleg Dubson, Sabine Schenk, and Kathrin Lohmann. The film was produced by Film Manufacturers Inc., in association with KJ Entertainment, Schenk Productions Inc., Drymen Pictures, Mass Distraction Media, and Hangtime International Pictures.

Sichel serves as the film's principal narrator. His account is supplemented by interviews with his wife and children, journalists and authors including Carl Bernstein, Stephen Kinzer, Scott Anderson, and Adam LeBor, as well as historian Peter Grose. The film also features Kartika Sukarno, daughter of Indonesian president Sukarno, and Erick Arbenz, grandson of Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz, providing perspectives on the consequences of U.S.

The film combines interview material with archival footage, photographs, home recordings, and excerpts from fictional works connected to Sichel's wartime experiences.

James Carman served as cinematographer. Matthew Cohn edited the film, with additional editing by Bernadine Colish and Joseph Ruscitto. The original score was composed by David Steinberg.

The feature-length version runs 106 minutes. A shorter, 92-minute television version was produced for German-language and French-language broadcasts.

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