Spiral is a French television police drama series in eight parts created by the TV production company Son et Lumière. The first episode was broadcast by Canal+ in France on 13th December 2005, and it has the rare distinction amongst adult French TV programmes of having been broadcast in the United Kingdom. Its title in French is Engrenages, primarily meaning "cogs", but also with the sense of figurative spirals (into violence, for example). Spiral was first shown in the UK on BBC Four during the summer of 2006. It was the channel's first French-language drama series, attracting a modest but loyal audience (around 200,000) and firm critical approval. (Other foreign-language drama series shown on BBC Four have included Heimat and the miniseries of Das Boot.) In April 2007, BBC Four announced it had bought the rights to the second series[1], which will be shown after a re-run of the first (on consecutive nights from April 9).
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Plot
Spiral begins with the discovery of the badly beaten body of a young Romanian woman on a Parisian rubbish dump. Her identity and past life are gradually uncovered as the various parts of the French justice system investigate her death. However, it becomes apparent that her story ties to a network of corruption touching the very people charged with uncovering the truth about her.
Cast
- Caroline Proust : Police Captain Laure Berthaud
- Grégory Fitoussi : Pierre Clément, Acting Chief Prosecutor
- Philippe Duclos : Judge François Roban
- Guillaume Cramoisan : Benoît Faye, a businessman
- Audrey Fleurot : Joséphine Karlsson, a lawyer
- Fred Bianconi : Fromentin
- Anne Caillon : Marianne Clément
- Thierry Godard : Gilou
- Mirza Halilovic : Michel Le Roumain
- Vincent Winterhalter : Vincent Leroy
- Mélodie Marcq : Alissa
- Florence Loiret : Ghislaine Androux
- Simona Maicanescu : Madame Andrescu
- Jean-Christophe Bouvet : Médecin légiste
Production staff
- Series created by Alexandra Clert and Guy Patrick Sainderichin
- Directed by Philippe Triboit and Pascal Chaumeil
- Written by Cristina Arellano, Laurent Burtin, Alexandra Clert, Laurence Diaz and Guy-Patrick Sainderichin.
- Produced by Alain Clert and Charline de Lépine.
- Distributor : 2001 Audiovisuel (France) - info@2001audiovisuel.fr
References
- ^ "More European drama for BBC4", MediaGuardian, 2007-04-04. Retrieved on 2007-04-14.
