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| Genre | Thriller drama |
| Created by | Joshua Long |
| Written by | Joshua Long |
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| Country of origin | Poland |
| Original languages | Polish English Russian Vietnamese |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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| Network | Netflix |
| Release | November 30, 2018 (2018-11-30) |
1983 is a Polish thriller drama television series produced for and released byNetflix on 30 November 2018. The series, created and written by Joshua Long and based on an original idea by Long andMaciej Musiał, is set in analternate timeline in which the fall of the communistPolish People's Republic never happened, and theIron Curtain is still in place.[1][2] It is Netflix's first Polish original series.[3]
The series is set in 2003; 20 years after a coordinated terrorist attack took place on multiple sites in Poland in 1983 which altered the course of history. The Iron Curtain (and probably the Berlin Wall) is still in place and theCold War did not end. Law student Kajetan (Maciej Musiał) andCitizens' Militia investigator Anatol (Robert Więckiewicz) uncover a conspiracy that could potentially start a revolution.
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The story is set in a gloomy and coldWarsaw, where dilapidated, grimySoviet-style apartment blocks stand side by side with futuristic and imposing government and police buildings. Thesecret police of the Security Bureau now use computer surveillance mechanisms, tracking cell phones and digitizing citizens' data (classified according to their "level of danger").[4] People need to scan their digital ID cards before entering government buildings, leaving a record of their activities.
Society is run by the "Party", a privileged elite who enjoy a good education, high economic and social status, and live in gated compounds. The rest of the population is uninterested in politics and are distracted by escapism andconsumerism, at least for goods that are not censored or prohibited. Many Western books are censored. The "Light Brigade", a group of young resistance fighters, oppose this dictatorship.
Poland is imagined to have seen massive immigration from Indochina, and in particular from the socialist republic ofVietnam. Some night scenes set in overcrowded Asian neighborhoods hint at Ridley Scott'sBlade Runner.
There are few explicit references to communism in the series (no statues ofLenin in the streets, no red stars on uniforms or revolutionary chants). The regime created anOrwellian state, whose sole ideological goal is the suppression of dissent and the control of individuals.
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| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [5] | |
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| 1 | "Entanglement" "Uwikłanie" | Agnieszka Holland andKatarzyna Adamik | Joshua Long | November 30, 2018 (2018-11-30) | |
It is set in 2003 in a totalitarianPoland, after Poland suffered a series of massive terrorist bombings in 1983. The Cold War never ended, so theIron Curtain remains in place. A young law student and a jaded old detective are starting to discover evidence of a conspiracy and they learn about the Light Brigade, a resistance movement. | |||||
| 2 | "Rollback" | Agnieszka Holland and Katarzyna Adamik | Joshua Long | November 30, 2018 (2018-11-30) | |
| 3 | "Alignment" "Układ" | Katarzyna Adamik | Joshua Long | November 30, 2018 (2018-11-30) | |
| 4 | "Blowback" "Reperkusje" | Katarzyna Adamik | Joshua Long | November 30, 2018 (2018-11-30) | |
| 5 | "Sanctuary" "Sanktuarium" | Olga Chajdas | Joshua Long | November 30, 2018 (2018-11-30) | |
| 6 | "Subversion" "Zdrada" | Olga Chajdas | Joshua Long | November 30, 2018 (2018-11-30) | |
| 7 | "Mayday" | Agnieszka Smoczyńska | Joshua Long | November 30, 2018 (2018-11-30) | |
| 8 | "Requiem" | Katarzyna Adamik | Joshua Long | November 30, 2018 (2018-11-30) | |
On 6 March 2018, Netflix announced that the series was in production, consisting of 8 episodes.[6] On 2 October 2018, the first teaser trailer was released, with the series set to premiere globally on 30 November.[3]
A second season is being considered.[7]
