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Spies of Warsaw (2013)

Spies of Warsaw poster
Genre
historical television series, espionage television series
Country
United Kingdom, France
Length
1 season, 2 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 39 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A French spy works as a military attaché in Warsaw before World War II. He gets involved in espionage and a romance while the war breaks out around him.

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What happens

Spies of Warsaw is a British television miniseries in which a Deuxième Bureau intelligence agent (spy) poses as a military attaché at the French embassy in Warsaw, and finds himself drawn into the outbreak of World War II. The television series takes its name from its source, The Spies of Warsaw, a 2008 spy novel by Alan Furst. The book was adapted for television in 2013 as a co-production of TVP1, BBC Four, BBC America, and ARTE and premiered in January in the United Kingdom and in April in the United States. It starred David Tennant as the protagonist Colonel Jean-François Mercier and Janet Montgomery as his love interest Anna Skarbek. As in other Alan Furst novels, the fictional Parisian restaurant Brasserie Heininger serves as one of the settings for dialogue. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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