Sleepers - trailer

The Cold War is over but all the players are still ready for a rumble

As seen on Masterpiece Theatre

Soviet agents Sergei Rublev and Vladimir Zelenski so successfully absorbed the culture they were sent to spy on in 1965 that they have become more English than the English. Now living as dashing London financier Jeremy Coward and brewery worker and family man Albert Robinson, the "sleeping" spies are horrified to learn that, after 25 years, the KGB is looking for them. While the sleepers run from discovery, the hunt also awakens the bumbling bureaucrats of MI5 and their ultra-paranoid CIA counterparts, who work themselves into a lather trying to figure out what the KGB is up to.

The poignancy of the sleepers' predicament plays out amid a hilarious cross-cultural send-up of the secret agent game. Nigel Havers (Manchild, A Perfect Hero) and Warren Clarke (Dalziel and Pascoe, The Onedin Line) star in this touching human comedy, remembered as one of the best British exports of the 1990s.

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[albierte]

A real wonderful series, I learned that anyone can adopt to a better life.

[Indul1]

Ah the days in late 80's and this was in 1991 when the country still produced great TV

[eocarcharia]

It's available uncut on R1 DVD. :)

[madcyril]

I loved this mini series and used to have it on vhs. I would love to get hold of it again.