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The Sleepers

2019 · 1 season

A slow-burning, paranoid espionage drama that keeps you unsettled and guessing, with a cold, melancholic atmosphere.

Genres
Drama
Overview
In this spy thriller, Marie and her husband Victor return from exile to Czechoslovakia on the cusp of the Velvet Revolution — but when the couple gets in a car accident, Marie wakes up from a coma to find her husband mysteriously gone.

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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • conspiracy
  • identity
  • betrayal
  • memory
  • politics
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror2
Humour2
Realism8
Romance3
Tension8
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Created by
Ivan Zachariáš, Ondřej Gabriel
Written by
Ondřej Gabriel
Starring
Tatiana Pauhofová, Martin Myšička, David Nykl, Lenka Vlasáková, Kristýna Podzimková, Jan Vlasák, James Beaumont, Terezie Vraspírová
Cinematography
Jan Velický
Length
1 seasons, 6 episodes, 60 min each
Network
HBO Europe
Country
Czech Republic
Languages
Czech, English, Russian

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