'Litvinenko', an excellent TV series about one of Putin's state crimes

@ElentirENG ES 8·07·2023 · 17:56 0

There are few television series that have hooked me as quickly as this series that I am going to talk about today.

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The case of Aleksandr Litvinenko, murdered in November 2006 by polonium-210 poisoning in the United Kingdom, is the subject of a British television series released in 2022. Litvinenko had been an FSB officer, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, successor to the famous Soviet KGB. After denouncing the orders given by his superiors to assassinate Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky, an opponent of Putin and who was residing in the United Kingdom as a political asylum seeker, Litvinenko was arrested and later released, then fled from Russia with his family and taking refuge in the United Kingdom, where he obtained British nationality.

In 2006, after being poisoned, he himself reported his murder to the British authorities, knowing that he only had a few days to live. The series, directed by Jim Field Smith and with David Tennant playing the role of Litvinenko, traces the investigation of the crime and the efforts of Litvinenko's widow to obtain Justice. The series hooked me from the first moment due to its seriousness and rigor, something that is appreciated when dealing with such a complex and controversial case. Tennant does an excellent leading role and the cast is really good.

The series consists of four chapters and is based on data from the case and on interviews with its protagonists, which is why to a large extent it works almost like a documentary, with the appropriate dramatization. Plotwise, the series is relentless with the promoter of the crime, Vladimir Putin , the top leader of the criminal organization that currently directs the destinies of Russia. In addition to illustrating Litvinenko's case in considerable detail, the series offers us a devastating picture of the kind of regime Russia has, its degree of corruption and the farce of its judicial system.

For the rest, there is one aspect that I especially liked about this series and that is that it is a good exposition on the importance of honesty, a sense of duty and the search for justice and truth against the corruption of a mafia regime like Putin's. This, from its tacit treatment in "Litvinenko", seems to me to be one of the most important issues in the series and one of the points that we should pay most attention to in democratic countries, regardless of our opinions. policies, so as not to end up deriving into something as monstrous as what they have in Russia.

In Spain, the series is available on Movistar Plus (available in Spanish and English; it aired last night on the M+ Series channel). In the UK it can be seen on Sky.com. You can see the trailer here: