An eight-part series available Friday on Netflix.
Serpentine (I see what you did there) storyline concerns aside, “The Serpent” is an effectively unsettling, fictionalized telling of the incredible and horrific series of kidnappings and murders orchestrated by one Charles Sobhraj, played to suave and oily perfection by Tahar Rahim, the brilliant French actor last seen in “The Mauritanian.” (For most of the story, Sobhraj operates under the alias of Alain Gautier, so we’ll refer to him as Alain moving forward.) The story opens in Bangkok, 1975, with Alain clearly the Man as he glides around a poolside party at an apartment building filled with bohemian hippie types, most of them from Western Europe or America and all of them looking to let their freak flags fly and extend the 1960s vibe as far as possible.
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Inspired by real-events, drama series, ‘The Serpent’, which tells the astonishing true story of how one of the most elusive criminals of the 20th century was caught and brought to trial, will be available to buy on DVD and on Digital Download now.
Award-winning French actor Tahar Rahim (“The Looming Tower”,
A Prophet, “The Eddy”) stars as Charles Sobhraj and Jenna Coleman (“Victoria”, “The Cry”) plays his girlfriend Marie-Andree Leclerc who together carried out a crime spree along the Asian “Hippy Trail” during the 1970’s.
Directed by Tom Shankland (“The Missing”, “Les Misérables“), ‘The Serpent’ also stars Ellie Bamber (“Les Misérables”, “The Trial of Christine Keeler”), Mathilde Warnier (“World on Fire”), Grégoire Isvarine (
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