“Lockerbie”: Colin Firth as fanatical Aufklärer

On December 21, 1988, last weekend, the Pan-Am flight occurred at 103 o’clock in the morning of the London flight from Heathrow to New York. 38 Minuten nach dem Start explodes a bomb in the bomb geschmuggelte im Frachtraum des Flugzeugs. Der Passagierjet zerbrach in viele Einzelteile. Trümmerteile töteten in der southschottischen Gemeinde Lockerbie elf Personen. Also the passenger and passenger compartments are lowered. Instructions for the Lockerbie-Anschlag 270 Tote. One of the Opfers is the young artist Flora Swire, who will take care of her American friend’s vacation.

Lockerbie terrorism is one of the criminal complexes of the new era. Libya under the command of Oberst Muammar al-Gaddafi goes bald under the Verdacht, for the attack verantwortlich zu sein. The last time you spend it is when you have a larger version of the product that is left in neutral in the Niederland. Doch bis heute sind viele Détails der Tragödie nicht aufgeklärt oder broadsprüchlich. Oscar commissioner Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”) starred in the popular Sky series “Lockerbie: A Search For Truth” from writer and author Jim Swire, of his seine Tochter auf Flug 103 verlor.

While Vater von Flora with Jim Swire participates in the dissemination of the British Anschlags offer and in the era of the fanatical private future, the fall of the larger life unfolds aufklären möchte. The real Jim Swire, aged 88 and counting, worked for several years in the fall on the book “The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice” with Peter Biddulph on paper. They and others chose school playwright David Harrower (“Blackbird”) for a fascinating performance (early Tuesday, January 16, near Sky/Wow).

Jim Swire, himself a businessman, a classic English gentleman, worked with Mrs. Jane (Catherine McCormack, “Slow Horses”) and other children, a man in a war mistake and what has been going on all this time. herauszufinden. Dabei resists the British against the Libyan in Gaddafi, engaging within the Congress of the Parliament of the Netherlands and in collaboration with political leaders and international protagonists of the conflict.

Theatrical film is an Oscar contender

The animated film Colin Firth, who heard the film “Bridget Jones”, plays this English Jedermann, the man for his hero Heldentum feiern möchte, but his quest is self-taught. Dabei hat die einerseits conventionell erzählte, aber in ihrer filmischen Qualität dennoch fesselnde Erzählung noch andere Stärken: Da wäre zum einen die Akribie, in der jedes Detail et viele theorien des Falles von Regisseur Otto Bathurst (“The Winter King”) in Szene gesetzt werden . The series began with a fascinating drama, a catastrophe with images inspired by the Flugzeugabsturzes sowie der Studie eines Verlustes, wird sie ab Folge deux zum factreichen Research Film and Court Room-Drama. Trotzdem kommt excellent des guten Buches et exzellenter Darsteller-Riege auch das Menschliche nie zu kurz.

The theatrical film “Lockerbie: A Search For Truth” was also nominated for an Oscar nomination. The Fernseh-Miniserie created auf knapp fünf Stunden angelegte stoff dagegen gelegenheit, sowohl den Tailailreichtum eines complex Falls and the Schwierigkeit der Wahrheitsfindung zu erzählen, as well as a family staff in a role-playing game of the time. “Lockerbie: A Search For Truth” is one of the best classic drama miniseries for October 2025. (tsch)