Sturla Gunnarsson to Head Documentary on the Air India Tragedy

Twenty years ago last Saturday, Air-India Flight 182 exploded above the Atlantic Ocean, near Ireland. Everyone on board was killed -- 136 of them were children and 280 were Canadian citizens. It was the deadliest terrorist attack before September 11, and is the largest mass-murder in Canadian history. Now the CBC is commissioning a documentary to start filming next month that delves into the tragedy -- to be directed by Sturla Gunnarsson. His name might ring bells as the man who directed the great 2005 adaptation Beowulf & Grendel, which starred Gerard Butler as Beowulf to Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson's Grendel. However, he also has an Oscar-nominated documentary under his belt -- 1982's After the Axe, which bodes well for this production.
The doc will be a collection of re-enactments, archival footage, information on the victims and a look into how intelligence agencies handled things. If things go as planned, the film should be aired early next year on the CBC.
26/06/07 Monika Bartyzel/Cinematical, US

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