Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast from Netflix.

My name's Robin Dibovic.

I work at Netflix, and I'm really excited to be hosting this week's episode.

Every other week on You Can't Make This Up, we bring in... really excited to be hosting this week's episode.

Every other week on You Can't Make This Up,

we bring in a new interviewer

to talk about a different Netflix series or film

with special guests.

And what's great about this is that all of the stories are surprisingly true.

This week, we're not diving into another docu series, and instead we're going behind the scenes of Ariale of Romans new spy thriller, The Angel.

The Angel is based on this incredible true story of a man named Ashraf Marwan.

Ashraf was the son-in-law of Egyptian President Nasser,

who helped overthrow the monarchy in 1952 and then became the second ever president of

Egypt. Ashraf later became a special advisor to President Nr's successor, whose name was Anwar Sadat.

Sadat then went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the Egypt-Israel

peace treaty.

So what's crazy about this, though,

is that through it all, Ashraf was acting

as a double agent for both Israel and Egypt,

ultimately becoming one of the most important

Israeli informants in the country's history.

Here to talk about Ashraf's story and the film itself are the president of the LA Films Critic Association,

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