Director: Gerardo Herrero
"Raqqa: Spy vs. Spy" is a 2024 espionage thriller directed by Gerardo Herrero, tracing two intelligence operatives from rival services who are drawn toward the same target inside a city gripped by armed conflict.
What is Raqqa: Spy vs Spy about?
Set during the years when the northern Syrian city of Raqqa functioned as the administrative center of the group that called itself Islamic State, the film places two spies inside hostile territory with clashing allegiances. One serves Russian intelligence; the other is a Europol agent of Moroccan origin working under cover. Although they answer to opposing masters, their missions converge on a single individual, a high-ranking militant known by the codename "The Jordan," whose location both sides want confirmed. Circumstance forces the pair into a wary, distrustful partnership as they move through checkpoints, informant networks, and the constant risk of discovery. The story stays close to the mechanics of survival in an occupied city, where a wrong word can prove fatal and where the human cost of the occupation is never far from view.
Cast & crew
The ensemble is led by Álvaro Morte, alongside Mina El Hammani, Abdelatif Hwidar, Déborah François, Ben Temple, Sara Hwidar, Cristina Kovani, and Fariba Sheikhan. The performers span Spanish, Moroccan, and international backgrounds, in keeping with the film's cross-border production and its multilingual setting.
Context & significance
"Raqqa: Spy vs. Spy" is a Spanish-Moroccan co-production filmed and released in 2024. Gerardo Herrero, a long-established figure in Spanish cinema as both director and producer, oversees a story that sits at the intersection of action, adventure, and thriller. The backdrop, the mid-2010s occupation of Raqqa, is presented as historical setting rather than commentary, with the plot organized around the tradecraft of espionage: surveillance, false identities, coded contacts, and the fragile trust between agents who cannot fully rely on one another. The runtime is roughly 101 minutes.
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