''The Bay of Spies'' ( pl, Zatoka szpiegów) is a Polish

historical drama A historical drama (also period drama, costume drama, and period piece) is a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television. Historical drama includes historical fiction and romance film, romances, adventure f ...

television series. It began airing on TVP on 7 January 2024.

Premise

In 1940s Gdynia, a Nazi ''

Abwehr The ''Abwehr'' (German for ''resistance'' or ''defence'', but the word usually means ''counterintelligence'' in a military context; ) was the German military-intelligence service for the ''Reichswehr'' and the ''Wehrmacht'' from 1920 to 1944. A ...

'' officer discovers his Polish origins and decides to become an

Allied An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called ...

spy. He is tasked with obtaining intelligence about the ''

Kriegsmarine The (, ) was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The was one of three official branches, along with the a ...

'' during the ongoing

Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade ...

Cast

Bartosz Gelner Bartosz Gelner (born 25 April 1988) is Polish actor best known for his roles in the films ''Suicide Room'' (2011) and ''Floating Skyscrapers'' (2013), as well as the television series '' Ultraviolet'' (2017–19) and '' Sexify'' (2021–23). Bio ...

as Franz Neumann * as Greta * as Commander Kessler * Wiktoria Supryn as Ilse * as Engel * Maria Świłpa as Anna * as Rosa Neumann, Franz's mother * Karol Biskup as Staszek * as Johann *

Episodes

Production

Filming for the series began on 5 May 2023 in

Gdańsk Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...

and later moved to Gdynia and Sopot. Filming was completed by June 2023. A press screening of the series took place on 9 November 2023.

References

External links

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