September 23, 2019

On Jan. 14, 2015 prosecutor Alberto Nisman went on TV to accuse Argentine President Cristina FernĂĄndez de Kirchner of negotiating the impunity of Iranians accused of the Buenos Airesâ 1994 AMIA bombing, the biggest terrorist attack in the Western hemisphere before 9/11.
âThere was an alliance with terrorists, negotiation with a state that bought the terrorists and the terrorists themselves,â said a dapper Nisman, in the interview which appears in the early stretch of Justin Websterâs deeply-caring, meticulous âThe Prosecutor, the President and the Spy,â a six-hour doc series which world premiered Monday at Spainâs San Sebastian Film Festival.
Four days later, and on the eve of testifying in court, where he promised decisive proof of the collusion, Nisman was found dead in his bathroom with a single shot to the head. His death reverberated around the world.
Immediately, Kirchner is accused of ordering Nismanâs murder. She denounces the man described in âThe Prosecutorâ as Argentinaâs Rasputin, the fearsome Antonio Horacio âJaimeâ Stiuso, a spy with close links to the CIA and Mossad, of conspiring against her.
Produced by Barcelonaâs Justin Webster Productions and Fasten Films, Berlinâs Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion and backed by Movistar+, ZDFinfo and DR, âThe Prosecutor, the President and the Spyâ is âa story of ambition, corruption and espionage which unfolds, with rival narratives of good and evil, of suicide or murder, and of truth itself, around a body found in a bathroom, with enormous international resonance,â its makers say.
âThe Prosecutorâ will be âan earthquakeâ in Argentina, predicts San Sebastian Festival director JosĂ© Luis Rebordinos.
It is also Websterâs most original and most ambitious series to date â building on âDeath in Leon,â the Emmy-winning âSix Dreamsâ and HBO Españaâs âThe Pioneerâ â marking the full emergence of an auteur and the creative and industrial potential of a form of story-telling with which he admits heâs obsessed: Cinematic non-fiction series.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Nisman
https://www.clarin.com/espectaculos/tv/caso-alberto-nisman-muerte-llego-festival-san-sebastian-serie-fiscal-presidenta-espia_0_bNSwCcNJ.html (ESPANOL)
https://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/internacionales/501930-atentados-argentina-iran-impunidad/ (ESPANOL)
https://www.losandes.com.ar/article/view?slug=el-senado-no-quiere-tratar-el-pedido-de-desafuero-a-cristina (ESPANOL)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Nisman (FRANCAIS)