The Eastern Gate

The Eastern Gate (Polish: Przesmyk, lit. 'Corridor') is a Polish suspense thriller television series. The first season was released on Max on 31 January 2025.

The Eastern Gate
Max poster
Polish	Przesmyk
Genre	Suspense thriller
Directed by	Jan P. Matuszyński
Starring	Lena Góra Bartłomiej Topa Andrzej Konopka [pl] Karol Pocheć [pl]
Music by	Stefan Wesołowski
Country of origin	Poland
Original languages	Polish Russian
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Cinematography	Kacper Fertacz [pl]
Running time	41–54 minutes
Production company	TVN Warner Bros. Discovery
Original release
Network	Max
Release	31 January 2025 (2025-01-31) – present

Premise

Ewa Oginiec, a veteran Polish intelligence officer suffering from occupational burnout, is set to retire before learning that her lover, a fellow agent, has gone missing on an undercover assignment investigating Russian military activity in the region. She agrees to replace him in exchange for her superiors agreeing to help find him. The title refers to the Suwałki Gap, a strategic NATO area around the Polish-Lithuanian border.

Cast

• Lena Góra as Ewa Oginiec
• Bartłomiej Topa as Krzysztof Hałaj
• Andrzej Konopka [pl] as Zbigniew Lange
• Karol Pocheć [pl] as Skiner
• Ewelina Starejki as Helena Jankulowska
• Leszek Lichota as Tadeusz Lemański
• Kamila Urzędowska as Inka Nawrot
• Piotr Żurawski [pl] as Błażej
• Tomasz Ziętek as Jan Drawicz
• Eliza Rycembel as Maria Drawicz
• Alona Szostak [pl] as Tamara Sorokina
• Dariusz Chojnacki [pl] as Lieutenant Adamus
• Antoni Sztaba as Kaj
• Artur Paczesny as Olaf Klemensiewicz
• Dmytro Malkov [ru] as Skopincew
• Lidia Sadowa [pl] as Paulina Oginiec
• Michał Sikorski [pl] as Jasiek
• Zbigniew Stryj as Dedra-Łęcki
• Jan Englert as Minister
• Piotr Pacek as Michał
• Magdalena Walach as Maria Niedźwiecka
• Sergei Abolomov as Generał Kozłow
• Mirosław Zbrojewicz as Paweł Niedźwiecki
• Andrew Zhuravsky as Aleksiej Sorokin

Episodes

No.	Title	Duration	Original release date
1	"Episode One"	48 min	31 January 2025 (2025-01-31)
2	"Episode Two"	54 min	7 February 2025 (2025-02-07)
3	"Episode Three"	43 min	14 February 2025 (2025-02-14)
4	"Episode Four"	41 min	21 February 2025 (2025-02-21)
5	"Episode Five"	50 min	28 February 2025 (2025-02-28)
6	"Episode Six"	50 min	7 March 2025 (2025-03-07)

Production

The series was shot in and around Gliwice, Sosnowiec, Katowice, Kraków, Zakopane, and Warsaw.^[1][2]

Release

The series' first promotional image was released in on 2 May 2024.^[3] A teaser trailer was released on 24 October 2024.^[4] The first season was released on 31 January 2025.^[5] On 24 March 2025, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a second season.^[6]