Spies of Warsaw (TV series)
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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]
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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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Network | BBC Four |
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. 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]