Spies of Warsaw (TV series)

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Spies of Warsaw
Genre	Historical fiction
Written by	Dick Clement ; Alan Furst ; Ian La Frenais
Directed by	Coky Giedroyc (3 episodes); Weronika Migon (2 episodes); Kiaran Murray-Smith (2 episodes);
Starring	David Tennant; Janet Montgomery; Marcin Dorociński; Mirosław Zbrojewicz; Ellie Haddington; Burn Gorman; Radosław Kaim; Linda Bassett; Allan Corduner; Anton Lesser;
Composer	Rob Lane
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Executive producer	Richard Fell
Production locations	Kraków, Warsaw
Cinematography	Wojciech Szepel
Running time	180 minutes total
Production companies	Apple Film Productions; Arte France; Fresh Pictures; TVP1;
Original release
Network	BBC Four
Release	9 January –; 16 January 2013

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.

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. It starred David Tennant as the protagonist Colonel Jean-François Mercier and Janet Montgomery as his love interest Anna Skarbek. As in other Alan Furst novels, the fictional Parisian restaurant Brasserie Heininger serves as one of the settings for dialogue.