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The Informant

2020 · 1 season

A slow, suffocating plunge into paranoia, where every friendly face might be a trap and survival costs pieces of the soul.

Created by
Peter Bebjak
Genres
Drama
Starring
Jan Cina, Jenovéfa Boková, Martin Finger
Overview
1950s. Under the communist regime, a struggling actor joins the KGB as an informant to make ends meet. He quickly finds himself caught up in a dangerous web of deceit and treachery.

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Created by
Peter Bebjak
Genres
Drama
Starring
Jan Cina, Jenovéfa Boková, Martin Finger
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • betrayal
  • identity
  • power
  • corruption
  • sexuality
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension8
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Created by
Peter Bebjak
Written by
Pavel Gotthard, Petr Bok
Starring
Jan Cina, Jenovéfa Boková, Martin Finger, Adrian Jastraban, Jan Nedbal, Emília Vášáryová, Luboš Veselý, Jiří Štrébl
Cinematography
Martin Žiaran
Length
1 seasons, 3 episodes, 80 min each
Network
ČT1, RTVS, Eurochannel
Country
Czech Republic, Slovakia, United States of America
Languages
Spanish, Slovak, English, Czech

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