MASTERPIECE: THE LAST ENEMY

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• Release Year: 2008
• Genre: Action, Drama, Foreign, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Set in the very near future, this riveting thriller explores how technology and terror could transform civilization into a dystopian society of constant surveillance.; ; Reclusive, brilliant mathematician Stephen Ezard returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral, an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully-controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize.; ; Soon he finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow, Yasim; lured into becoming the public face of the government super-database, a program with the ability to watch and record the actions and movements of every individual; and caught up in an international conspiracy that forces him to question who, if anyone, he can trust.; ; Benedict Cumberbatch (Atonement) stars as Stephen, with Max Beesley (Hotel Babylon) as Michael, and Anamaria Marinca (Sex Traffic) as the beautiful and mysterious Yasim.
• Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Anamaria Marinca, Max Beesley, Robert Carlyle, Eva Birthistle, Geraldine James, David Harewood, Alex Caan, Christopher Fulford, Alina Ioana Serban, Ovidiu Niculescu, San Shella, Paul Higgins, Emil Hostina, Rupert Procter, David Calder, Inika Leigh Wright, Tom Fischer, James Lance, Kieran O'Brien, Chipo Chung, Nicholas Sidi, Mircea Caraman, Vlad Theodor Cacinschi, Radu Andrei Micu, Travis Oliver, Chris Wilson, Adrian Bate, Rebecca Eaton, Peter Berry
• Director: Adrian Bate
• Runtime: 5:10
• Company: WGBH/Boston, BBC, BoxTV
• Media Format: Series