NEWS ON LOCKERBIE ! VIEW NEW FACTS ON THE CASE HERE | |
Duration: 52' Director: Gideon Levy Producer: Produced by BlazHoffski in co-production with ARTE/ZDF and VPRO sales contact NPO Sales
| On the 28th of April 2009 the Lockerbie was re-opened, as the Libyan man who is convicted for life imprisonment for the mass murder of 270 people, will get a second appeal as there might have been a miscarriage of justice. The Libyan man, called Al -Megrahi, has been diagnosed with cancer, which has spread through out his body. As the appeal is expected to last for a year, time is running out for him. The film proves that things have gone terribly wrong with the main evidence in this case. Director Gideon Levy, talks to key players who conducted the Lockerbie investigation. He unravels how the investigation took place and how the truth gets lost. The hunt for the truth is told in a fresh and original, up beat way. Key players are confronted in an unconventional, straightforward and personal way. Investigators and former spies are forced to listen to each other’s conflicting statements, which the Director puts to them, on his laptop. The film is shot in the USA, UK, Scotland and Holland. Main Characters are Robert Baer (CIA), Richard Marquise (FBI), Lord Fraser (Lord Advocate), Stuward Henderson (Scottish Police), Tom Thurman (FBI), Fred Whithurst (FBI). Backlight: Lockerbie revisited is a 52-minute investigative film, co produced by ARTE/ZDF and VPRO Television Written & Directed by Gideon Levy Produced by BlazHoffski Co-produced by: ARTE/ZDF and BACKLIGHT – VPRO Television |
