THE SERPENT (2021) Miniseries Trailers, Featurette, Images and Poster

"The Serpent" is an eight-part crime drama miniseries directed by Tom Shankland and Hans Herbots, and written by Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay. The series is a co-production between Netflix and BBC One.

Inspired by real events, the limited series reveals the story of serial conman Charles Sobhraj (Tahar Rahim) and the remarkable attempts to bring him to justice. The cast also includes Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle, Ellie Bamber, Amesh Edireweera and Tim McInnerny.

"The Serpent" premiered on January 1, 2021 on BBC One, and on April 2, 2021 via Netflix.

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"Posing as a gem dealer, Charles Sobhraj and his girlfriend Marie-Andrée Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) travelled across Thailand, Nepal and India in 1975 and 1976, carrying out a spree of crimes on the Asian 'Hippie Trail,' becoming the chief suspects in a series of murders of young Western travelers. When Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle), a junior diplomat at the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok, unwittingly walks into this intricate web of crime, he -- with the help of his spouse Angela (Ellie Bamber), police around the world and witnesses of Sobhraj's devious manipulation -- sets off an extraordinary chain of events that will see Sobhraj become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants in multiple continents."