Summary of movie Timewatch (1982) {the Princess Spy}
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The privileegd daughter of an American woman and a descendant of Indian royalty, Noor Inayat Khan was an unlikely war hero. Trained as a musician, she was slightly clumsy, dreamy, and wrote childrens fairy stories in Paris. The Nazi invasion of Frnace changed the direction of her life. Fleeing to England with her family, gentle Noor concluded that the fascists represented a great evil. She volunteered her services to the Allies despite her Sunni Muslim faith, which adovcated pacifism. Extraordinarily conscientious and brave, Noor was the first female radio operator to be sent into Nazi-occupied France by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) at a time when agents reputedly had a life expectancy of just six weeks. When the Nazis shut down her network, she did the work of six human being as the Nazis colsed in on her. Noor was eventually betrayed and captured.
In ten months of torture and brutal interrogation, she didnt give the Gestapo a single item of information, includnig her real name. Eventually, this remarkable woman was taken to Dachau Concentration Camp and shot. Timewatch tells the Princess Spys tragic and inspirational story.
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