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1983

TV·2018–2018·Netflix·Science-Fiction, Thriller, Espionage·57m·6.5·Created by Joshua Long, Maciej Musiał

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The deeply frozen Cold War is heating up. Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student and a disgraced police investigator stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.

Now, in 2003, after two decades of peace and prosperity, the leaders of the regime enact a secret plan made with an unlikely adversary in the 1980s that will radically transform Poland and affect the lives of every citizen in the nation — and the world.

What these two men discover has the potential to ignite a revolution and those in power will stop at nothing to keep it a secret.

Cast

Robert WięckiewiczRobert WięckiewiczAnatol JanówMaciej MusiałMaciej MusiałKajetan SkowronMichalina OlszańskaMichalina OlszańskaOfelia "Effy" IbromAndrzej ChyraAndrzej ChyraWładysław LisZofia WichłaczZofia WichłaczKarolina LisAgnieszka ŻulewskaAgnieszka ŻulewskaMaja Skowron

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