Spy/Master
Power is a hungry animal.
Created by Kirsten Peters, Adina Sădeanu
On HBO Max
A tense Cold War espionage thriller centered on a high-stakes defection, where paranoia and moral compromise drive the narrative across a brief, concentrated run.
During the height of the Cold War, Victor Godeanu, the right-hand man and closest advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, and secret agent for the KGB, must escape Romania and Ceaușescu before his cover is blown. Helped by an undercover Stasi agent and an up-and-coming CIA agent, Godeanu must elude the KGB and his own country’s spooks, fully aware that his defection is putting his family back home in mortal danger.
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