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Spies of Warsaw - Season 1

Series: Spies of Warsaw

4.1

(312)

Episodes

Rating

TV14

Year

2013

Language

English

Publisher

BBC Studios

About

David Tennant and Janet Montgomery star in this adaptation of Alan Furst's celebrated spy novel set in Poland, Paris and Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. At the French embassy in Warsaw, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city.

Related Subjects

Drama

Episodes

1. Episode 1

45m

Poland, 1937. By day, decorated First World War veteran Jean-Francois Mercier serves as the French military attaché to Warsaw. With the cover of night he works as part of a vast and complex intelligence network, desperately trying to understand what the Hitler's Nazi regime intends for Europe.

2. Episode 2

45m

Mercier has escaped a deadly fate inside the German boarder, but now faces an uncertain future as the world moves ever-closer to war. He's being watched by vicious Germans agents, and his burgeoning relationship with Anna is not sitting well with those on his own side.

3. Episode 3

45m

Mercier is in trouble. Betrayals and double-crossings on all sides have left him alone and in the hands of the Germans. Still, armed with the codename of the unhappy Nazi intelligence officer, as well as a way to get to him, he just might have one last card to play.