Prime Suspect 6 - The Last Witness

Starring:Helen Mirren, Oleg Menshikov, Ben Miles, Robert Pugh, Clare Holman, Mark Strong (II), Liam Cunningham, Velibor Topic, Barnaby Kay, Tanya Moodie, Frank Finlay, Phoebe Nicholls, Rad Lazar, Serge Soric, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Olegar Fedoro, Sam Hazeldine, Eileen Battye, Nadia Cameron-Blakey, Vid Ivanisevic
Director: Tom Hooper (II)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Helen Mirren returns in triumph to the role that brought her international stardom, British police inspector Jane Tennison, in the sixth series of Prime Suspect. Tennison finds herself being pressured to retire and responds by seizing a difficult homicide investigation: A young female Bosnian refugee has been tortured and murdered. As the trail begins to suggest connections to war atrocities in the Balkans, Tennison finds herself struggling with resistance from higher up, uncooperative and ambitious underlings, and deeply buried secrets. The strength of Prime Suspect has always been how it merges suspenseful detective work with an intricate grasp of police politics, and The Last Witness is no exception. The plot unfolds masterfully, the program is directed with striking visual style, and Mirren (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, Gosford Park) commands the screen. Her authority in this role, honed through five previous series, is unmatchable; the richness of the character--steely, sexy, obsessive, rash, cunning--makes Prime Suspect essential viewing. --Bret Fetzer

Description

It's been thirty years of police work for Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison. She's older, in some ways wiser, still fighting the urge for a cigarette & still fighting the "men only" attitude of the force. Ripe for retirement in the eyes of some. Tennison is still up for a fight, and she'll need all the energy she can muster when she takes on the darker forces of British government in search of a sadistic killer with a guilty past.

Customer Reviews:

Prime Suspect 6.......2007-03-11

I really enjoy Helen Mirren movies. I do have a hard time making out the dialogue, but it is well worth viewing.

All Helen Mirren Prime Suspect Series which I purchased.......2007-03-08

All of them are fantastic - they are in my classic collection and I value them

Wonderful as always!.......2007-02-12

I am on pins and needles for the DVD of Prime Suspect 7!

Great Way to End.......2007-01-17

Ending a series usually goes betraying the characters or their fans. This was the exception, of course HM's acting was impecable but the writing was great, the closest it can get to reality, to human condition and at the same time leaves you with a sense of hope for a very dear character regardless of her flaws and not so wise decisions. Not tragic, not fairy tale, simply positive and realistic and hopeful. As long as there is hope... It will be missed!!!

They saved the best for last.......2006-04-27

Prime Suspect 6 is, without question, the best of the Prime Suspect series. The combination of a stellar cast, a fantastic script, inventive cinematography, and a haunting score add up to one of the more entertaining dramas I've seen, period. Helen Mirren is, as usual, outstanding in the role of Jane Tennison. The character is as strong as ever there is a real depth to her character in PS6, including some great scenes with Jane's father. I recommend this wholeheartedly. If you're a fan of Prime Suspect, and who else would be looking at this, you are going to love it.

I agree that the fact it is not widescreen is a disappointment, but it is still very enjoyable. I believe the UK edition (widescreen) is now out of print, so this is the one we've got. I'm not complaining.

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Prime Suspect 6 - The Last Witness
Director: Tom Hooper
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Product Description

The murder of an undocumented immigrant worker leads London detective Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) to Bosnia and back in the sixth installment of the BBC crime drama Prime Suspect. Now a high-ranking official in London's police force and crankily contemplating retirement, Tennison oversees dozens of murder investigations. But she decides to come out from behind her desk when the tortured and broken body of an unidentified woman is discovered in a warehouse. Finding out the victim's identity is hard enough, but the forensic evidence proves the woman was previously tortured years earlier. When the victim is finally identified as Samira Blekic, a Bosnian Muslim, Tennison must uncover the horror Samira suffered a decade earlier in her Balkan homeland and race to protect her sister, Jasmina Blekic (Ingeborga Dapkunaite), from Samira's killer. Originally broadcast November 9-10, 2003, Prime Suspect 6 is known as Prime Suspect: The Last Witness in the United Kingdom.

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