The series premiere The gold in Filmin marked the arrival in Spain of one of the BBC’s most acclaimed productions in recent years. This fiction was directed and written by Lawrence Gough and Aneil Karia Neil Forsythreconstructs the largest robbery in the history of the United Kingdom, an event that has left a deep mark on both British collective memory and popular culture.
The series, which received a nomination for Best Drama Series at the BAFTA Awards and was watched by ten million viewers in the UK, has become a success television phenomenon before we land in our country.
The distribution of The gold It is led by Dominic Cooper, Jack Lowden, Hugh Bonneville and Emun Elliott, who play the main protagonists of the case. Brink’s mat.
The plot is based on real events in November 1983, when six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security camp near London’s Heathrow Airport. Although their original aim was to steal a million pounds in foreign currency, the robbers found three tonnes worth of gold bars, diamonds and cash 26 million pounds (equivalent to about 112 million in 2025).
This blow, which was considered to be the one at the time grand theft Never committed worldwide, it sparked a complex international money laundering network and sparked a series of deaths and controversies that shaped British criminal history.
The series is based on extensive research and interviews with people who were directly involved in the events. Neil Forsyth, its creator (author of the excellent Fault), has stated that his intention was to go beyond the story of the robbery and examine the consequences and impact of the case, as although everyone knows about the robbery, particularly in Britain, they know nothing about what happened afterwards.
Therefore, the original thieves didn’t know what to do with the gold and ended up dead locked up or ruined. It was a different class of criminals, white-collar criminals, who ultimately took full advantage of this coup. Until now, no one had uncovered, compiled and dramatized the various consequences that arose in connection with the case.
One of the least known aspects of the Brink’s Mat case, which the series delves into in particular detail, is the trial bleaching of stolen gold. After the robbery, the gold bars ended up in a criminal network who melted them down and scattered them so that most of the gold could never be recovered.
Charlotte SpencerActress who plays Inspector Nicki Jennings highlighted the magnitude of this phenomenon in the series: “It’s something that you don’t hear about anymore, and the fact that it’s been melted down and distributed, to the point that any gold that exists now, after the ’80s, probably has a little bit of Brink’s-Mat in it… You probably have a little bit of this stolen material on your wrist or in your ears,” Spencer said in the context of the production.
The plot of The gold The focus is on tracking down those responsible and the money laundering network, rather than on the theft itself. The gang led by Micky McAvoy, played by Adam Nagaitis, turns to bootlegger Kenneth Noye (Jack Lowden) to sell the gold, who in turn enlists the help of lawyer Edwyn Cooper (Dominic Cooper) to legalize the loot. Detective Brian Boyce, played by Hugh BonnevilleHe takes over the investigation while Inspectors Nicki Jennings and Tony Brightwell (Emun Elliott) complete the police team, the latter two characters being fictional.
Neil Forsyth has emphasized that his aim was not to construct a story of good guys and bad guys, but rather to provide a nuanced view of all the characters involved. Thus, the influence of series like The sopranos This is evident in the construction of the characters, who are portrayed as ordinary people with flaws and complex motivations.
The success of The gold This is also explained by the interest aroused by the heist subgenre in fiction, which has had real “hits” in recent years, such as: The money heist either lupineboth available on Netflix. In this case, the series is also about 80s Britain and how that Thatcher government He wanted to make it believe that the class system was over. “We use the microcosm of this story to refute this statement and show that these invisible barriers have survived despite all modernization,” the creator explained.
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