Spies of Warsaw

Spies of Warsaw

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BBC Four Ended Drama • Thriller • Espionage

1 Season · 2 Episodes · Premiered January 9, 2013 · Ended January 16, 2013

French and German intelligence operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle in the espionage arena. At the French embassy, a decorated war hero of the 1914 war, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, is sucked into a world of abduction, betrayal and international intrigue from the diplomatic salons to the back alleys of Warsaw. Mercier simultaneously finds himself in a passionate love affair with Anna, a Parisian lawyer for the League of Nations. Their complicated love affair intensifies as German tanks drive through the Black Forest.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

2 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Wed, Jan 9 2013 9:00 PM GMT+0000 90 min
A German engineer arrives in Warsaw. Tonight he will be with his Polish mistress, tomorrow at a workers bar in the city's factory district to meet with Colonel Mercier in a backstreet cafe. Information is exchanged for money.Mercier loathes the niceties of ambassadorial lunches, cocktail parties and banquets of a world not yet at war, but one in which the drums of war can be heard ever more insistently in the background. However, they take on an altogether more interesting dimension when he meets the enigmatic and beautiful Anna Skarbek.While secretly observing panzer exercises in the Black Forest, Mercier sees a simple trick performed with a length of pipe strapped across a car and draws his own conclusions about exactly what it is the Germans are planning.When the Nazis find out what he's been doing, his own life becomes their target.
E02
Episode 2
Wed, Jan 16 2013 9:00 PM GMT+0000 90 min
Warsaw 1938. French military attache Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier is also a spy on a mission, one which takes him undercover toCzechoslovakia on the trail of the elusive Chaika, a man who can lead him into the heart of the Nazi war machine.Back in Warsaw, his erstwhile mistress Anna Skarbek is devastated by news of her ex-lover and political refugee and journalist Max Mostov. Heartbroken, she flees to Spain on a League of Nations mission of mercy.As the Nazi storm clouds gather over Europe, dashing Polish Colonel Anton Pakulski undertakes his own mission, a mission that goes to the heart of protecting the very future of Poland itself.
David Tennant
David Tennant as Jean-François Mercier
Marcin Dorociński
Marcin Dorociński as Antoni Pakulski
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman as Jourdain
Richard Lintern
Richard Lintern as Colonel Lassard
Tuppence Middleton
Tuppence Middleton as Gabrielle

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