The four chapters of the excellent
Litvinenko
(Movistar Plus+)
narrate the 22 days of agony and death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB member exiled in Great Britain and poisoned with polonium 210. Three weeks in which the protagonist, a sober David Tennant, lucidly assumes his imminent death and offers a wide information about the authors, direct and indirect, of their poisoning.
He has one thing clear: the person responsible for his death is Vladimir Putin, his former boss in the KGB and President of Russia during the events reported.
Scripted by George Kay and directed by Jim Field Smith, the series focuses on the police investigation that aims to clarify the State terrorist act in central London, a scrupulous investigation that finds the obstructionist attitude of the Russian authorities, something recognizable by these payments when the courts tried to investigate the double accounting of the PP, and the demagogy of those who considered Litvinenko a traitor to the Homeland when in reality he was an expert in the cruel methods of his secret services.
In other words: Putin considers that attacking him is attacking Russia, a very beneficial extrapolation for his personal interests, like that of the businessman who alleges "legal uncertainty" to save several million euros in taxes.
What has been said: an excellent series that ratifies the already well-known despotism of Vladimir Putin and the impotence of citizens in the face of the powers of the States, because if in the Russian case it is evident, the British one is not far behind, who, finally, puts the commercial and political interests to the consequences of convicting someone who decided to end the life of a dissident.
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