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The serpent, the mini-series

Label
The serpent, the mini-series
Language
eng
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Intended audience
Rating: MA 15+ Restricted - Strong themes violence and drug use
Main title
The serpent
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Originally broadcast in 2021
Runtime
458
Sub title
the mini-series
Summary
Bangkok, 1975. Charles Sobhraj is a thief and a conman. He targets young travellers on the Asian Hippie Trail and ruthlessly exploits their innocence. When Herman Knippenberg, a junior diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok, opens a letter from a man in The Netherlands worrying after the whereabouts of his sister-in-law and her boyfriend, he accidentally walks into Sobhraj's intricate web of crime
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
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