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Spies of Warsaw

Coky Giedroyc

Richard Fell

Dick Clement

Ian La Frenais

David Tennant

Janet Montgomery

Marcin Dorocinski

Ann Eleonora Jorgensen

Burn Gorman

Ellie Haddington

Piotr Baumann

Jan Pohl

Rad Kaim

Linda Bassett

Allan Corduner

Tusse Silberg

Anton Lesser

Richard Lintern

Julian Glover

Nicholas Blane

Fenella Woolgar

Richard Teverson

Tuppence Middleton

Marcin Walewski

Miroslaw Zbrojewicz

Maciej Marczewski

Anna Czartoryska

Magdalena Poplawska

Ludger Pistor

Lech Dyblik

Grazyna Zielinska

Maria Mamona

Romuald Krezel

Joanna Kulig-Bochniak

Grzegorz Emanuel

Krystyna Rutkowska-Ulewicz

Tom Pawlak

Gregg Lowe

John Weisgerber

Maciej Nawrocki

Spies of Warsaw: Episode 1

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Episode 1

BBC Four - Spies of Warsaw, Episode 1

A German engineer meets with Colonel Mercier and information is exchanged for money.

Classic tale of spying, intrigue and romance. In a backstreet Warsaw cafe, a German engineer meets with Colonel Mercier and information is exchanged for money.

Classic tale of spying, intrigue and romance, based on the novels of Alan Furst.

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.

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Classic tale of spying, intrigue and romance, based on the novels of Alan Furst.

Classic tale of spying, intrigue and romance, based on the novels of Alan Furst and adapted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

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