The production mixes the true story of a documentary with touches of fiction, revealing a dark CIA mystery.
The CIAis an autonomous organization of the US government that is dedicated to collecting, analyzing and providing intelligence information to the president about the country’s security. Netflix surprises with “Wormwood”, a miniseries which recounts one of the many mysterious deaths linked to the organism.
The organization was the protagonist of numerous controversial episodes throughout history, and one of them is the MKUltra project. This program, which involved experiments with drugs such as LSDserves as the basis for “Wormwood.” which tells of the death of the scientist Frank Olsona case that sparked a tireless search for the truth.
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What Wormwood is about, miniseries on Netflix
The spectacular six-episode series reconstructs the mysterious death of Frank Olson, a CIA biochemist who died in 1953 after falling from the tenth floor of a hotel in Manhattan. What began as an apparent accident soon revealed connections to secret U.S. government experiments.
Throughout the series, Olson’s son embarks on a personal quest to discover what really happened to his father. The miniseries combines dramatization with documentary materialmanaging to create an immersive narrative that raises disturbing questions about how far the power of the State can go to hide the truth.
Wormwood trailer, miniseries on Netflix
Cast of Wormwood, miniseries on Netflix
Errol Morris the acclaimed documentary filmmaker, directs this production that mixes documentary film with fictional elements. Peter Sarsgaard plays Frank Olson. The cast of the series includes renowned actors such as Molly Parker, Christian Camargo and Scott Shepherd.
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