The four chapters of the excellent Litvinenko (Movistar Plus+) chronicle the 22 days of agony and death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB member who was exiled in Britain and poisoned with polonium 210. Three weeks in which the protagonist, a sober David Tennant, clearly assumes his imminent death and offers extensive information on the direct and indirect perpetrators of his poisoning. One thing is clear to him: Responsible for his death is Vladimir Putin, his former boss at the KGB and President of Russia at the time of the reported events.
Written by George Kay and directed by Jim Field Smith, the series focuses on the police investigation aimed at solving the government terrorist attack in central London, a painstaking investigation that finds the Russian authorities’ obstructionist stance evident in 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 fatherland, when in reality he was an expert in the cruel methods of his intelligence services. In other words, Putin considers an attack on him to be an attack on Russia, a very beneficial extrapolation for his personal interests, like those of the businessman who claims “legal uncertainty” in order 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 states, because if it is evident in the Russian case, the British one is not far behind, which finally the commercial and political interests in the consequences of convicting someone who has decided to end the life of a dissident.
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