Die Serie enthüllt die Ursprünge des 21-jährigen Mughniyeh (auch bekannt als „Der Geist“), der für mehr amerikanische Todesfälle verantwortlich war als jedes andere Individuum vor dem 11. September 2001. Von seiner Kindheit und Jugend in den schiitischen Slums im Süden Beiruts bis hin zum führenden Mitglied im Nachrichtendienst der libanesischen Organisation Hisbollah und einem der weltweit gefährlichsten Terroristen. Dieser raketenhafte Aufstieg soll ihm durch die Ausarbeitung des Konzepts des Selbstmordattentäters gelungen sein. Das vierteilige Spionagedrama erstreckt sich über Jahrzehnte und integriert Interviews mit prominenten Vertretern der CIA und des Mossad. Es basiert auf teilweise noch unter Verschluss gehaltenen Ereignissen und soll mit einer innovativen Erzählweise beeindrucken, die durch tiefgehende journalistische Recherchen und dokumentarische Elemente ergänzt wird.
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From reading the first few reviews on IMDb and the low ratings here, I can only imagine the raters/reviewers were either the wrong audience for this show (they expected fictional high-stakes Homeland) or didn't grasp what they were watching was a version of an Israeli-Palestinian-Lebanese reality that has a highly-contested, multifaceted, and many-charactered plot. It is a complex story, too many events, too many characters that cannot all be explored in depth, too much backstory that cannot be all explained in 4hrs. Real life is complex. Trying to boil it down to simple terms and singular titular characters reduces it to a caricature of itself - I'm glad Ghosts of Beirut hasn't done that so far. So far having only watched episode 1 (more to come), I'm excited to see more. The characters feel real. The Arabic and Hebrew spoken are real. The main characters are very well known in the middle-east and the political circles everywhere else. All I can say is that I'm pleasantly surprised that this show is made, that we can get complex stories on TV that don't try to dumb things down.
this is proper boring propaganda.
Dont know who is giving this low ratings,first two episodes have been top notch.
Ghost of Beirut is a political docudrama with elements of action, telling the story of a militant responsible for numerous bombings over three decades. The dramatized narrative is interwoven with commentary from real-life figures involved in the hunt, which helps clarify the political context of the time. I found it captivating. If you enjoy spy dramas set in the Middle East and are looking for a more grounded, realistic take on the genre, this series is well worth watching.