Spies of Warsaw ( Szpiedzy w Warszawie )

Spies of Warsaw (DVD) (*)

$34.99

Original Title: Szpiedzy w Warszawie
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
177 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Coky Giedroyc
Ian La Frenais

Written By:
Dick Clement
Alan Furst

Actors:
David Tennant ..... Jean-Francois Mercier / ... (2 episodes, 2013)
Janet Montgomery ..... Anna Skarbek (2 episodes, 2013)
Marcin Dorocinski ..... Antoni Pakulski (2 episodes, 2012-2013)
Miroslaw Zbrojewicz ..... Marek (2 episodes, 2013)
Piotr Baumann ..... Maxim Mostov (2 episodes, 2013)
Ellie Haddington ..... Madame Dupin / ... (2 episodes, 2013)
Radoslaw Kaim ..... August Voss (2 episodes, 2013)
Burn Gorman ..... Jourdain (2 episodes, 2013)
Gregg Lowe ..... Young German Soldier (2 episodes, 2013)
Grazyna Zielinska ..... Wladzia (2 episodes, 2013)
Linda Bassett ..... Malka Rosen / ... (2 episodes, 2013)
Allan Corduner ..... Viktor Rosen (2 episodes, 2013)
Grzegorz Emanuel ..... Weasel (2 episodes, 2013)
Anton Lesser ..... Doctor Lapp / ... (2 episodes, 2013)
Richard Lintern ..... Colonel Lassard / ... (2 episodes, 2013)
Julian Glover ..... General Beauvilliers (2 episodes, 2013)
Nicholas Blane ..... Heininger / ... (2 episodes, 2013)
Fenella Woolgar ..... Lady Angela Hope (2 episodes, 2013)
Richard Teverson ..... Roddy Fitzware (2 episodes, 2013)
Tuppence Middleton ..... Gabrielle (2 episodes, 2013)
Jan Pohl ..... Voller / ... (2 episodes, 2013)
Alan Corduner ..... Viktor Rosen (2 episodes, 2013)
Dan Fredenburgh ..... Armand (2 episodes, 2013)
Tusse Silberg ..... Helen Skarbek / ... (2 episodes, 2013)

Synopsis:

When is a war not a war? Espionage, intrigue and romance in the tense prelude to the Second World War A thrilling adaptation of Alan Furst's celebrated novel by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais Starring David Tennant and Janet Montgomery. Warsaw,1937. With the Nazi war machine ready to roll, the city is teeming with German, Russian and Western spies. In dark corners and shadowy streets - nations not yet officially at war, engage in a bitter battle of intrigue, betrayal and abduction. Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a decorated war hero, is the military attaché to the French Embassy in Warsaw. Playing the role of charming ambassador, Mercier finds himself becoming infatuated with Anna, a Parisian lawyer for the League of Nations, but he also has a secret role - as a daring spy determined to discover Germany's plan for invasion. As war creeps ever nearer, Mercier's leads take him on a suspense-filled journey deep into the Germany and to the heart of the Nazi operation. While, back in Warsaw, the chaos is all embracing - and his passionate affair with Anna is taking its own devastating course...

Season 1
Episode #1.1
S1, Ep1 Jan. 9, 2013
Widowed Jean-Francois Mercier is a spy posing as a military atttache in the French embassy in Warsaw in 1937. Leading a double life he may escort League of Nations lawyer Anna Skarbek,girlfriend of Russian emigre Maxim Mostov to a lavish function one night but next day he will be liaising with agent Edvard Uhl,an engineer in a tank factory who brings him blue-prints for a new German tank. Then at night he will lead a covert band investigating secret German tank trials in the forest. The Germans are suspicious of Uhl but he dies before they can arrest him.

Episode #1.2
S1, Ep2 Jan. 16, 2013
Mercier escapes his German captors and travels to Czechoslovakia to meet the contact the elderly Rozens - whom he helped to defect - gave him,Professor Julius Halbach. Having being given money and a Swiss passport Halbach arranges for Mercier to meet the double agent Chaika, Johannes Elter,a Gestapo officer who gives him details of Germany's planned invasion of France. Mercier is rewarded by his superiors with promotion and a home in Paris. He rings Anna to join him but she refuses as Maxim has been deported and she blames her liaison with Mercier.

A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 March, 2013.

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