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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0054961854790
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Acorn Media
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Acorn Media
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Running Time: 211 minutes
Sales Rank: 40815
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: 1991
Editorial Review:
Description:
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 infiltrated the culture they were sent to spy on in 1965 that they have become more English than the English. Now living as financier Jeremy Coward and brewery worker Albert Robinson, the 'sleeping' spies are horrified to learn that, after 25 years, the KGB is looking for them. 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.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE cast filmographies and scene selection.
Note: due to music rights, this program has been modified for home video presentation.
Amazon.com:
Brewery worker Albert Robinson and financier Jeremy Coward seem like average British guys, until the Russian government claims they're Russian KGB agents defected to England, in Sleepers. This four-episode miniseries stars Vladimir Zelenski as Albert and Sergei Rublev as Jeremy, agents suddenly in danger of losing their anonymity when KGB agent Nina dedicates her work to solving the mystery of their whereabouts. Dry comedy in Sleepers transforms a potentially serious subject into satire about post-Cold War bumbling and bureaucracy, as various secret groups in the UK and the US get a whiff of what the sneaky Russians are up to and begin interfering. Scenes alternating between the KGB, the CIA, and the MI5 make it clear that no one really knows why they're hunting these two retired men, or what threat they pose. Sleepers' humor capitalizes on outmoded Cold War obsessions with keeping tabs regardless of purpose. Many comic moments center on military tracking of an unknown friend of Albert's, named Morris, who turns out to be his daughter's stuffed monkey. --Trinie Dalton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - No Beatles, but still wonderful
It's a pity that "The Long and Winding Road" had to be removed from the penultimate scene for the DVD release, but otherwise this classic show is nearly perfect. Both funny and moving, brilliantly written and beautifully acted, this is one of my all-time favorites, and I'm a huge fan of British TV. Despite being somewhat dated, it still very much holds up, even with repeated viewings. David Calder's performance is particularly memorable: "I'm a Soviet spy workin' the west, honey. Whaddya want ... Read More
Rating: - A great series
I saw this when it first aired and loved it.
After all these years, I still enjoyed it immensely!
Rating: - The Wrong End of the Stick!
This brilliant satire on the bumbling post-Cold-War intelligence services of the UK, the USSR, and the USA, who spend so much time spying on each other that each service wildly misinterprets what the other is actually doing, is not to be missed. The plot may unfold slowly, but it will soon have you laughing out loud. The two KGB sleeper spies left out in the cold of England are Nigel Havers and Warren Clarke. The former, who has taken the capitalistic financial world of London by storm, is thoroughly ... Read More
Rating: - Terrific
I don't own the dvd (yet), but I have a battered old VHS from when the series aired on American tv. This is such a wonderful program, with a beautiful score by Graeme Revell that can be haunting or funny. The miniseries is also haunting and funny. An old vault is discovered in the depths of KGB headquarters that seems to contain records of a program to plant moles in England. The head of the program is locked in an insane asylum and no one can get him to talk. The idea of rogue agents who have been ... Read More
Rating: - To be or Not to be...a Secret Agent Man.
Like the earlier reviewer, I have waited a long time for this terrific BBC miniseries to come to DVD. It's a very interesting story of two men who were placed by the KGB in Britain as (possible) spies. Their instructions: Melt into the English population as if they were natives. And this they do. They are forgotten. And when they have become entirely British...indeed one of the men is now married with children...they get
an urgent call on their antique Russian radio to "reactivate" as spies.
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