Flight of the Storks
2012 television miniseries
Flight of the Storks is a 2012 French English-language action thriller miniseries directed by Jan Kounen and based on Jean-Christophe Grangé's 1994 novel of the same name.
Plot
Jonathan Anselme, a young English academic, teams up with Max Böhm, an amateur ornithologist, to follow storks on their migration from Switzerland to Africa. Max wants to find out why some birds never return from this journey. However, after Max is found dead in mysterious circumstances, Jonathan decides to make the trip alone, never suspecting that he will find himself caught up in an international web of intrigue. While the Swiss detective Dumaz investigates Max Böhm’s murky past, Jonathan is forced to confront his own troubled history. He uncovers a trail of grisly murders travelling through Bulgaria, Turkey, the Middle East, and the Congo along the pathway of the migrating storks and their deadly secret.
Cast
Harry Treadaway as Jonathan Anselme
Rutger Hauer as Sonderman
Perdita Weeks as Sarah Gabbor
Clemens Schick as Hervé Dumaz
Danny Keogh as Max Böhm
Richard Lukunku as Gabriel
Antoine Basler as Marcel Minaus
Amr Waked as Doctor Djuric
Grant Swanby as Hank
Production
Shooting commenced in October 2011. Flight of the Storks was shot in South Africa, Istanbul and across Europe.
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