Crossbones
(2014)
Regisseur:
Neil Cross, James V. Hart, Amanda WellesSchauspieler:
Claire Foy, Yasmine Al Massri, Chris Perfetti, David Hoflin, Richard Coyle, John Malkovich, Tracy IfeachorIn US-Serie „Crossbones“ basiert auf dem Buch „The Republic of Priates“ von Colin Woodard. Sie handelvom „goldenen Zeitalter der Piraterie“ zwischen 1715 und 1725 und beschreibt die Bildung der Piraten-Republik New Providence. Dort versammelten sich einige der gefürchtesten und bekanntesten Piraten jener Zeit, um jenseits der Herrschaft der Fürsten anderer Länder die erste Demokratie der Neuen Welt zu begründen. Mit unserem modernen Verständnis von „Demokratie“ dürften die damaligen Zustände freilich wenig gemein haben.
It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of Santa Campana, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part shantytown, part marauder's paradise, this is a place like no other on earth - and a mounting threat to international commerce. To gain control of this fearsome society, Tom Lowe, a highly skilled undercover assassin, is sent to the buccaneers' haven to take down the brilliant and charismatic Blackbeard. But the closer Lowe gets, the more he finds that his quest is not so simple. Lowe can't help but admire the political ideals of Blackbeard, whose thirst for knowledge knows no bounds - and no law. But Lowe is not the only danger to Blackbeard's rule. He is a man with many villainous rivals and one great weakness - a passionately driven woman whom he cannot deny.
It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of Santa Campana, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part shantytown, part marauder's paradise, this is a place like no other on earth - and a mounting threat to international commerce. To gain control of this fearsome society, Tom Lowe, a highly skilled undercover assassin, is sent to the buccaneers' haven to take down the brilliant and charismatic Blackbeard. But the closer Lowe gets, the more he finds that his quest is not so simple. Lowe can't help but admire the political ideals of Blackbeard, whose thirst for knowledge knows no bounds - and no law. But Lowe is not the only danger to Blackbeard's rule. He is a man with many villainous rivals and one great weakness - a passionately driven woman whom he cannot deny.
