SBS on Demand: Partisan, Gorbachev. Heaven, Bonnie and Clyde, North Sea Connection.

Swedish crime drama Partisan, Czech biography Gorbachev. Heaven, Dutch crime drama Bonnie and Clyde, and Irish thriller North Sea Connection all screen this week at SBS on Demand.

Partisan (Season Two)
Thursday, 13 October
All five episodes available to stream. In Swedish with English subtitles.
The gated community of Jordnära is covering its tracks after discovering an infiltrator among them. The damage caused by the partisan has changed the conditions for then community, who suddenly face challenging financial times, forcing them to make some drastic decisions to keep their insidious plan alive. At the same time, they’re trying to find the lost sisters to bring Jordnära back to its former glory. However, their plans face resistance when a suspicious accident with connections to Jordnära occurs, making the local police launch an investigation. What seems like an accident hides more than expected, and while digging closer to the truth, the reality they
face gets darker than imagined. Partisan stars Anna Björk, Emelie Garbers, Pelle Holmström, and Kola Krauze. Partisan will begin airing on SBS at a later date.

Gorbachev. Heaven
Saturday, 17 October
In Russian with English subtitles.
Gorbachev. Heaven is a documentary film about changes that reverberated throughout the world wrought by one man. A film summing-up the life of a man who changed the world in the 20th century. Mikhail Gorbachev’s short time in power was marked by the collapse of this empire. He was the architect of Glasnost and Perestroika, policies that gave the citizens of the Soviet Union – what Ronald Reagan called ‘the Evil Empire’ – a chance to be free. He tore down the Berlin Wall. But at the same time, under his rule, the Chernobyl nuclear facility exploded, and its destruction was concealed. Citizens demanding independence in the Baltic states died. Soldiers wielding shovels brutally suppressed protesters in Tbilisi. And Soviet tanks menaced, and killed, peaceful demonstrators in Baku. The Soviet empire collapsed under him – and he is condemned by his own people. With this burden of the past, this lonely old man is living the last days of his life in an empty house in the suburbs near Moscow. History will judge Gorbachev, but Gorbachev presents his own, final testimony.

Bonnie And Clyde
Saturday, 17 October
All four episodes available to stream. In Dutch with English subtitles.
Bonnie And Clyde is a four-part miniseries about two young, rambunctious lovers and their violent quest for freedom. The series is inspired by the rise and fall of Antonio Marcos van der P. and Enise B., renamed Bonnie and Clyde in the press, who captivated the whole of the Netherlands for two weeks in February 2014. Esra Kaplan (Dilan Yurdakul) has only a few months left in juvenile detention but decides not to return after a dramatic leave visit to her Turkish family. Instead, she and her boyfriend Greg Driessen (Yannick Jozefzoon) are on the run. For the first time in their lives, Esra and Greg feel free from everything and everyone, but soon the crimes pile up from bad to worse and they come to be known as the ‘Bonnie and Clyde of the Low Countries’. Will they be able to escape and start over together – or will they eventually be overtaken by their past?

North Sea Connection
Saturday, 17 October
All six episodes available to stream.
The stunning scenery of Ireland’s west coast conceals a dark secret in which Ciara Kenny (Lydia McGuinness) must confront the dramatic consequences of her brother Aidan’s (Kerr Logan) decision to transport drugs at sea from the isolated and traditional rural Irish fishing community in Connemara. North Sea Connection also stars Dónall Ó Héalai, Claes Ljungmark, and Natalie Simpson.