Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

(2009)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 291 votes

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Drama, телевизионный фильм

Year: 2009

Runtime: 106 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Джулиан Джаррольд

Cast: Эндрю Гарфилд, Warren Clarke, Шон Бин, Дэвид Моррисси, John Henshaw, Anthony Flanagan, Jennifer Hennessy, Mary Jo Randle, Rita May, Rachel Jane Allen

Plot

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.

In 1974, Eddie Dunford comes home from South England and gets a job as a cub reporter for the Yorkshire Post. A schoolgirl has gone missing, and Eddie suspects it's one of several crimes dating back six years; the police think not and blame gypsies. Eddie digs; the police stonewall him then two of them beat him after he visits the widowed mother of one of the girls missing for a few years. When a child's body turns up at a construction site of local building magnate John Dawson, Eddie has another thread to pull. By now, he's begun an affair with Paula, the widowed mother, and he suspects collusion among Dawson, the police, and his newspaper - but what are they covering up?