The Serpent

★ 7.4IMDb Score
Released:2021-01-01
Duration: min
Director:
Actors:Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle, Ellie Bamber, Mathilde Warnier
Production:Mammoth Screen

Overview:

The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.

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