Polish spies, Belarusian blackmail, and a Soviet nuke in Sweden. Cold War's not over, it's just outsourced.
8.045 minSeason 1 • Episode 10
LatestKonrad Wolski, head of the Q department, an elite Polish intelligence unit, taking over a Belarusian arms dealer in Istanbul, learns about a terrorist attack planned in Sweden. The weapon to be used in the attack is to come from the Soviet arsenal hidden in Belarus. Konrad immediately contact with Travis, a Polish spy secreted in the Minsk KGB, to obtain intelligence information that will defeat the terrorist plan. The matter is complicated by the fact that Travis has just been exposed by one of the Belarusian KGB officers. He's financial blackmail, will not remain in his position for a long time. Sara - an officer of the Polish Intelligence Agency is sent to Minsk with the mission of his immediate evacuation. At the same time, a retired general of Belarusian services in Warsaw is blackmailing the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.
Acting
Grzegorz Damięcki's exhausted patriotism
Direction
Minsk shot on location—authentic dread
Writing
Intelligence work as slow-collapse admin job
Grzegorz Damięcki
Konrad Wolski
Filip Pławiak
Oleg Zubov "Travis"
Sylwia Juszczak-Krawczyk
Sara Korska
Agnieszka Grochowska
Ewa Dębska
Andrzej Seweryn
Hans Jorgensen
Alicja Juszkiewicz
Emilka
Andrzej Konopka
"Czerstwy"
Ireneusz Czop
Bielik
Synnøve Macody Lund
Linda Boman
Arkadiusz Detmer
Lutek
Adam Woronowicz
Rozłucki
Artemii Yehorov
Yurevich
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Illegals reflects Poland's post-2015 anxiety about Russian influence and its own compromised institutions—rare mainstream Polish TV willing to suggest the rot goes all the way up.
Minsk location shooting required elaborate negotiation with Belarusian authorities, who apparently didn't read the scripts about corrupt KGB officers—some scenes were quietly filmed without full disclosure.
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