The television mini-series version of this cinema movie is divided into four TV episodes. They are entitled: (1) Recruitment (2) Training (3) Alpine Tourism and (4) Betrayal.
The movie's "Akwarium" is title is a Polish word which translates into the English language as "Aquarium".
The movie was made and released about just over a decade (or eleven years) after its source novel "Aquarium" (aka ("Inside the Aquarium") by Viktor Suvorov had been first published in 1985.
This cold war espionage drama is a co-production of three European countries: Poland, Ukraine, and Germany, with its spoken language being in Polish.
Intelligence agencies referenced and/or featured in the film include the KGB, the GRU, SPECNAZ (which refers to SPETSNAZ), and the Western Secret Service.