Spies of Warsaw (TV series)

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Spies of Warsaw
Genre Historical fiction
Written by Dick Clement
Alan Furst
Ian La Frenais
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  • Coky Giedroyc (3 episodes)
  • Weronika Migon (2 episodes)
  • Kiaran Murray-Smith (2 episodes)
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Composer(s) Rob Lane
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 4 (list of episodes)
Production
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Richard Fell
Production location(s) Kraków, Warsaw
Cinematography Wojciech Szepel
Running time 180 minutes total
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Release
Original network BBC Four
Original release 9 January (2013-01-09) –
16 January 2013 (2013-01-16)
External links
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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.[1]

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.[2] It starred David Tennant as the protagonist Colonel Jean-François Mercier and Janet Montgomery as his love interest Anna Skarbek.[3] As in other Alan Furst novels, the fictional Parisian restaurant Brasserie Heininger serves as one of the settings for dialogue.[4]

Cast

Main

Main cast includes:[1]

Support

Support cast includes:[1]

Episodes

There are four episodes, which have also aired as a two-part series.[5]

Reception

The two-part drama received some positive reviews in the UK, especially for the script and acting,[6] although The Guardian described it as "pallid as much of the washed-out photography".[7]

The Telegraph liked the series for many features: appropriateness for "intergenerational shared viewing, never... too visually brutal, and the playing of the minor characters... was convincingly understated".[8] The Guardian complained: "It should have been the perfect spy thriller. It had everything. Except tension".[9]

The New York Times found the series an "enjoyable, straightforward espionage tale without a lot of twists or extra layers" but deemed it "true to the original in story and in spirit",[5] though slow-moving, [10] and the Boston Globe thought it "a strangely bloodless affair".[11]

Rotten Tomatoes rated the television series 64% from critics and 50% from average audience.[12]

References

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External links

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