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Spy City is a spy thriller television miniseries created by William Boyd about spies in 1961 Berlin, during the Cold War. The series first aired in Germany, and AMC+ picked up the rights to stream in the United States at MIPTV.
- British actor Dominic Cooper worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company but he just can’t get enough of spy thrillers. In addition to playing an MI6 agent in Spy City (above) he starred as a naval spy in Stratton: “I loved learning how to drive the speedboats.
- Fielding Scott’s past soon catches up with him in Spy City. In the first episode, we learn that our hero is hunting a traitor. Is it his former French lover Severine Bloch (Romane Portail, above) who he abandoned and tricked into thinking he was dead?
- Scott and American CIA agent Conrad Greer (Seumas F. Sargent) served during World War II, but that was long ago. “The new world order might not quite align the same way,” Scott muses at one point.
- Spy City is an original work by William Boyd, the award-winning novelist and playwright who wrote the James Bond continuation novel Solo, so it’s no coincidence that Dominic Cooper channels his gun-wielding Bond best as MI6 agent Fielding Scott.
Apr 12, 2021 · Smart and stylish, AMC+’s “Spy City” captures a tumultuous time and place in world history: Berlin just before the forming of the Wall in 1961.
- Brian Tallerico
- Spy City Filming Locations
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Roudnice Nad Labem, Czech Republic
- Plzeň, Czech Republic
‘Spy City’ is filmed entirely in the Czech Republic. The landlocked Central European country has a vibrant filmmaking history that goes back to the late 19th century. Movies produced in the country, especially during the first half of the twentieth century, were sought internationally. Czechoslovak New Wave films of the 1960s stood out because of t...
‘Spy City’ is filmed in Prague and the surrounding areas. The filming for the series began on August 27, 2019, and wrapped up a few months later, on November 30, 2019. The production of the drama thriller is funded by the German Motion Picture Fund (600,000 euros), Nordmedia (100,000 euros), Czech Film Funds, and FilmFernsehFonds (FFF) Bayern. Prag...
Several important scenes for the drama-thriller show are also filmed in Roudnice nad Labem. Located in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Central European country, the historic town is one of the oldest places in the Czech Republic. Due to its rich history and ancient architecture, Roudnice nad Labem offered the production team of ‘Spy City’ the idea...
The shooting for ‘Spy City’ is also done in Plzeň in western Bohemia, Czech Republic. Like Roudnice nad Labem, Plzeň is also located near Prague (90 kilometers west of the capital city) and has a rich history that goes back to the medieval period. Owing to the impact of World War on Plzeň, the city serves as the perfect backdrop for filming a serie...
Starring Dominic Cooper as Scott, Fielding Scott, a very Bondesque British agent in Cold War Berlin, it’s very much in the style of the earliest adaptations of Ian Fleming’s novels, which were...
- Sean O'grady
Spy City: With Dominic Cooper, Romane Portail, Leonie Benesch, Johanna Wokalek. An English spy is sent to Berlin in 1961 to sift out a traitor in the UK Embassy or among the Allies, shortly before the construction of the Berlin Wall.
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Apr 15, 2021 · Our Take: Spy City aptly describes what it is all about: The ins and outs of the spy game in East and West Berlin before the Berlin Wall was built. The characters that inhabit that world ...
