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]
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Genre | Historical fiction |
Written by | Dick Clement, Alan Furst, Ian La Frenais |
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Composer | Rob Lane |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 (list of episodes) |
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Executive producer | Richard Fell
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Production locations | Kraków, Warsaw |
Cinematography | Wojciech Szepel |
Running time | 180 minutes total |
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Original network | BBC Four |
Original release | 9 January (2013-01-09) – 16 January 2013 (2013-01-16) |
The television series takes its name from its source, The Spies of Warsaw, a 2008 spy novel by Alan Furst.
Main cast includes:[1] Some of the story is set in Nowy Benesov and Nowy Boleslawiec.
Support cast includes:[1]
There are four episodes, which have also aired as a two-part series.[2]
The series was shot primarily in Krakow and Warsaw, Poland.[1]
Rotten Tomatoes rated the television series 64% from critics and 50% from average audience.[3]
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".[4] The Guardian complained: "It should have been the perfect spy thriller. It had everything. Except tension".[5]
New York Times deemed the series "true to the original in story and in spirit",[2] Slate as an engrossing, if slow-moving drama"[6] and the Boston Globe saying "a strangely bloodless affair".[7]
The New York Times found the series "enjoyable, straightforward espionage tale without a lot of twists or extra layers".[2]
BBC America aired the series in April 2013.[2]
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