The BBC Media Centre have now confirmed that Episode 1 of Spies Of Warsaw will be shown on BBC Four from 9pm - 10.30pm on Wednesday 9th January 2013. David Tennant stars as Jean-Francois Mercier with Janet Montgomery as Anna and Burn Gorman as Jourdain.
Spies Of Warsaw
A thrilling spy story set in Poland, Paris, London &
Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. French and German
intelligence operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the
espionage battlefield.
At the French embassy, the new military attaché, Colonel
Jean-Francois Mercier (Tennant), a decorated war hero of the 1914 war, is drawn
into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and
back alleys of Warsaw.
At the same time, the handsome aristocrat finds himself in a
passionate love affair with Anna (Montgomery), a Parisian lawyer for the League
of Nations. Their complicated love affair intensifies as German tanks drive
through the Black Forest.
Two 90-minute film adaptations of one of Furst’s most
acclaimed novels will bring to BBC Four a combination of historically located,
intelligent narratives, interlaced with flawed, romantic and utterly compelling
characters.
Episode One
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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