Netflix has spent the last couple of years beefing up its "Original Series" content by leaps and bounds. There are the in-house creations, like Strangers Things and The Crown. But Netflix also partnered up around the world with production companies to bring foreign language series to the network. The latest of these is the first Polish production entitled 1983, which Netflix did in conjunction with The Kennedy/Marshall Company and House Media, along with Polish director Agnieszka Holland, who directed all eight episodes. What is 1983 about? It’s a political thriller set in an alternate timeline.
The series may be called 1983, but the action is set 20 years later in 2003. But this is not the 2003 viewers know, it is one which occurs in a universe where the Iron Curtain never fell, and the communist government still reigns supreme.
What happened? Twenty years ago, in 1983, a series of devastating terror bombing changed the course of history, as martial law was declared in Poland, changing the direction of the Soviet Union and Gorbachev’s government.
Here’s the trailer:
Here’s the synopsis:
The show will also introduce American viewers to talents like Robert Więckiewicz, a multiple Polish Academy Award-winning actor, as well as singer-actress-writer Michalina Olszanska and TV host and actor Maciej Musiał. Więckiewicz plays the older disgraced police officer, Musiał plays the young law student.
For those fans of The Americans looking for a Cold War-era thriller to fill the empty space left behind after FX ended the series this spring, this is a show that looks like it will fill the gap nicely. For fans of foreign language TV and movies, this Poland-based story gives the Oscar-nominated Agnieszka Holland, who worked on House of Cards, a chance to tell a political story about her home country.
When the project was first announced, Holland said in a statement:
Hopefully, American fans will find 1983‘s alternate history as irresistible and some of Netflix’s other recent political fare, including the BBC co-production Bodyguard and the final season of House of Cards.
1983 does not yet have a release date.
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