The Last Spy

Plot

The riveting biography of 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, who unpacks the obscured roots of conflicts that plague today’s world and the toll espionage took on his personal life.

About The Last Spy

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. Built around an extensive interview with Sichel conducted near the end of his life, the film traces his flight from Nazi Germany, wartime intelligence work, and subsequent career with the CIA in Berlin, Washington, D.C., and Hong Kong. It also examines Sichel's later criticism of American covert intervention and the personal consequences of a career built around secrecy. The film premiered at the Munich Film Festival in June 2025 and subsequently screened at international festivals including Film Fest Gent, the Haifa International Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the New York Jewish Film Festival. A shorter television version, titled Der Jahrhundert-Spion in German and L'Espion aux mille vies in French, was broadcast by Arte in 2025. Dogwoof and Menemsha Films distribute the film in the United Kingdom and United States, respectively. The film received generally positive reviews, with critics highlighting Sichel's first-person account of the early CIA and the documentary's examination of American…

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