Spies Of Warsaw starring David Tennant and Janet Montgomery
comes to Australian TV from tonight (Sunday 5th May). The two part series
begins at 8.30pm on UKTV.
Spies Of Warsaw is
adapted from the novels of Alan Furst by award winning screenwriters Dick
Clement and Ian La Frenais. Directed on location in Poland by Coky Giedroyc, the drama
is a co-production between BBC Four, TV Poland, BBC America and Arte France.
Spies Of Warsaw
It is 1937, and Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a highly
decorated soldier from the First World War, is the military attaché stationed
in Warsaw , Poland
while the shadow of Hitler’s Nazi regime looms over mainland Europe .
Mercier is grossly suspicious of the German military’s
intentions, but he must juggle his formal duties at stifling diplomatic
functions with the often death-defying realities of espionage.
With intelligence from his German informant Edvard Uhl,
Mercier sets out on a stealth mission with his trusted accomplice Marek, where
they discover that the Nazis are ensuring any future invasion of Poland can take
place effectively and with little resistance. Mercier almost gets caught and
killed during the mission, narrowly escaping, and thereby facing the wrath of
French bureaucrat Jourdain, who is anxious to avoid the further heightening of
diplomatic tension.
Amid the threat of a second world war, Mercier is also vying
for the affections of Parisian lawyer Anna Skarbek, currently in an empty-shell
relationship with Russian Émigré and political journalist Maxim. As Mercier and
Anna’s relationship develops, it is clear that she must choose between both
men. But will Mercier’s feelings for Anna jeopardise his mission and can she be
trusted?
With David Tennant as Jean-Francois Mercier, Janet
Montgomery as Anna Skarbek, Marcin Dorocinski as Antoni Pakulski, Piotr Baumann
as Maxim Mostov, Ludger Pistor as Edvard Uhl, Miroslaw Zbrojewicz as Marek,
Burn Gorman as Jourdain, Alan Corduner as Viktor Rozen, Linda Bassett as Malka
Rozen and Ann Eleonora Jørgensen as Olga Musser.
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