"The Gold"

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Image from series "The Gold," directed by Patrick Harkins, Lawrence Gough, Aneil Karia (UK, 2023).

On November 26, 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. What started as "a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery" according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft, at the time the biggest in world history, but for its wider legacy.

The disposal of the bullion led to a vast international money laundering operation, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, united blue and white collar criminals and left controversy and murder in its wake.

Inspired by extensive research and interviews with some of those involved in the events, The Gold is a pulsating dramatization which takes a journey into a 1980s world awash with cheap money and loosened morals to tell this extraordinary and epic story for the first time in its entirety.

The session will include a screening of the first two episodes (in original version with Catalan subtitles).

A screening in the 2025 edition of Serielizados Fest.

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