THECkerbie
Type: dramatic
Director: David Harrower. With Colin Firth, Catherine McCormack, Arlandalan Esmaili, Sam Troughton, Claire Brown, Jemma Carlton, Harry Redding, Nabil al Waee, Mark Bonnar. On Sky Atlantic
December 21, 1988. The Pan Am 103 Flight takes off from the London airport of Heathrow directed to New York; Near the locker of Lockerbie, in Scotland, he disappears from the radar and explodes in flight due to a bomb placed on board. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members die together with 11 inhabitants of the town, overwhelmed by the remains of the aircraft.
A five -episode miniseries made by Sky is dedicated to this huge tragedy. The series follows the story of Jim Swire, a doctor who lost his daughter Flora and dedicated his life to seek truth; An intense interprets him Colin Firthwho manages to balance the laceration and firmness of a parent willing to do anything to obtain moral compensation.
Colin Firth is a combative father in mourning in “lockerbie”
The story of the attack of Lockerbie is a dramatic page of recent historythe center of an international intrigue complex in which Libyans or Iranians would have been involved as responsible.
Beyond the historical precision, what captures of this series is the family drama of Swire, the wife and the other two children; A wound impossible to heal, a tragedy impossible to accept that Firth’s acting restores us with words and looks of rare emotion.
To keep the memory alive on a tragic fact of recent European history.
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