Carice van Houten

MATA HARI UNVEILED IS A 4-EPISODE DRAMA SERIES WITH WIDE INTERNATIONAL APPEAL THAT WILL REVEAL NEW AND STAGGERING INSIGHTS INTO THE WORLD’S MOST INFAMOUS ICON OF SEX, SENSUALITY AND ESPIONAGE: MATA HARI. MATA HARI UNVEILED IS A 4-EPISODE DRAMA SERIES WITH WIDE INTERNATIONAL APPEAL THAT WILL REVEAL NEW AND STAGGERING INSIGHTS INTO THE WORLD’S MOST INFAMOUS ICON OF SEX, SENSUALITY AND ESPIONAGE: MATA HARI.

eveloped by award-winning Dutch Greta will win the hearts of an audience the world over, producer Paul Voorthuysen and showing them how she could go no other way than create creative producer Dag Neijzen, the her alter ego Mata Hari. They will see how in her younger series will star an actress currently years she was betrayed and abandoned by her father. embodying sensuality and intrigue on : How she was betrayed and raped by her teacher. How Carice van Houten. Iconic director , she was violently abused by her soldier husband and how who earlier worked with Carice on the international in an ultimate betrayal, God let her two year old son be hit film Blackbook, has been approached to direct. His murdered in Indonesia... visionary style guarantees an emotional and tantalizing visualization of the tragic story of the legendary dancer, Yet despite these tragedies, Greta refuses to become a courtesan and spy who met her end in front of a French victim and uses every means at her disposal to become firing squad during the First World War. an independent woman in a male dominated world. Using her body and soul in her infamous dances, she defies How Mata Hari could wrap men around her finger moral hypocrisy and successfully climbs her way to the inspired women all over the world. Her conviction top in theatres all over Europe. But the price she has to and execution by a secret tribunal based solely on pay is high, as she has to shut out true love and leave her circumstantial evidence made her an icon for women’s daughter behind. The moment she decides to drop her struggle for equality. In 2017, a century after her death, defenses and choose for the love of her life and a new the unsealing of her file by the French secret service chance of motherhood, all her previous actions come back will make Mata Hari more topical than ever. History has to haunt her. Mata Hari finds herself judged, convicted shown that answers of guilt or innocence only throw up and shot by a French military firing squad. more questions. An exciting, epic miniseries, MATA HARI UNVEILED answers the only question that truly matters: While MATA HARI UNVEILED may seem to be a historical Who was the woman behind the Mata Hari veil? series, its story is very much of now: a young woman finding her way in a world divided by political tensions, The series starts in Paris, 1917, when Mata Hari is economical conflicts, xenophobia and rising nationalism. arrested on charges of espionage. This liberated, A world in which new media rule with lies, and in which independent woman suddenly finds herself forced to lies rule the media. It’s a story that spans cities like Paris, defend her lifestyle as an artist and exotic dancer who Berlin, London and Madrid where decadence, double mixes with the high and mighty against a rational army morals and hypocrisy thrive. captain with self-proclaimed high moral standards, Pierre Bouchardon. As she struggles to prove her innocence, the The early 20th century was not so different from the early secrets of her life, the moral dilemmas she faced and the 21st and Mata Hari, an icon of the independent strong choices she made come alive. woman, who uses her sensuality, creativity and sexuality to get what she wants, was the Madonna or Lady Gaga of For the first time in history, the mythical icon that is Mata her time. The only difference is that to become a figure of Hari will brought back to human proportions, dropping mythical proportions who still speaks to the imagination the veil covering the real, human secrets of Margaretha of millions oppressed woman and other people around Geertruida Zelle. Secrets so dramatic and painful that the world, Mata Hari had to pay for it with her life.