The Spy Dancer

"The Spy Dancer" is the sixth episode of the Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 that premiered on Disney+ on May 4, 2023. It was made by France's Studio La Cachette and directed by Julien Chheng. Set on an affluent world occupied by the Galactic Empire, the short was inspired by cabarets in Nazi-occupied Paris as well as the performers Josephine Baker—who aided the French Resistance in the Second World War and later the American civil rights movement—and Mata Hari—who was executed by France for allegedly spying for the German Empire in the First World War. Director Julien Chheng was also influenced by his family's history under the genocidal Communist Khmer Rouge in 1970s Cambodia, particularly how the regime turned family members against each other. "The Spy Dancer" was particularly well-received by audiences in Cambodia and Argentina, which ended its last military dictatorship in 1983.

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