On Sky Atlantic «Litvinenko – Investigation into the death of a dissident» an example of how Putin behaves with those who don’t think like him
I hope that the Italian club “Amici di Putin” will deign to see «Litvinenko – Investigation into the death of a dissident», the four-part miniseries that recounts the tragic end of the former Russian dissident whose death from polonium-210 poisoning in November 2006 triggered one of the most complex and difficult investigations in the history of the British and international police (Sky Atlantic). Just to understand how the Russian despot behaves with those who don’t think like him.
The miniseries, written by George Kay and directed by Jim Field Smith, try to be as faithful as possible to the facts and, at the same time, respectful towards the victim and his family. Given the dryness of the story, reinforced by an almost television photograph, one wonders if it hadn’t been better to deal with the case with a documentary.
Maybe yes (some already exist), but we would have lost that emotional involvement necessary to tell not only a story of spies but a human drama that for ten long years involved a family, the widow Marina Litvinenko and her son Anatoly, broken by pain and defenseless against an impregnable power like Russia. We would have lost that audience unaccustomed to documentaries and more sensitive to serial spy stories: the murder, the difficulty of investigations also hindered by English bureaucracy, the stubbornness of some detectives, the discovery of the instigator of the assassination.
The tone of the story is cold, almost livid, but it is the necessary condition to reconstruct the facts, not to fall into romance, not to give in to rhetoric or sentimentality and to reveal, behind the specific case, the enormity of what is at stake. From a narrative point of view, the absolute clarity of death by poisoning and the gloomy background in which this death occurs collide: a sober and truthful account of a more current situation than ever.
February 2, 2023 (change February 2, 2023 | 21:31)
© Time.News