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1983 (2018)

1983 poster
Directed by
Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Katarzyna Adamik, Agnieszka Holland
Genre
drama television series, alternate history television series
Country
Poland
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 69 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In an alternate timeline where communism in Poland never fell, a law student and a police officer investigate a terrorist attack. They uncover a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of power.

tensesuspensefuldarkgrittyslow-burnconspiratorialbleakcerebralalternate-history

What happens

1983 is a Polish thriller drama television series produced for and released by Netflix on 30 November 2018. The series, created and written by Joshua Long and based on an original idea by Long and Maciej Musiał, is set in an alternate timeline in which the fall of the communist Polish People's Republic never happened, and the Iron Curtain is still in place. It is Netflix's first Polish original series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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