The BBC has acquired French crime thriller Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime, which follows the true story of one in every of France’s most prolific sexual predators.
The six-part collection appears to be like at a string of sexual assaults in northern France within the late Nineteen Eighties, alongside the identical street by the Sambre river. Because the police fail to get to grip with extent of the assaults or make a connection between instances, it is just 30 years later when a wrongdoer is caught.
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind docuseries The Staircase and the drama Laetitia, recounts the authorized case of a serial rapist. The solid contains Alix Poisson (The returned, Six Ladies), Clémence Poesy (The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon, Tenet), Olivier Gourmand (Oussekine, La Promesse), Noémie Lvovsky (Camille Rewinds, Farewell, My Queen), Jonathan Turnbull (Troopers), Pauline Parigot (Troopers, HPI).
The present follows the development of the investigation and its repercussions from the 80s by to 2018 and the start of France’s #MeToo period, a motion that has picked up speedy tempo in current months.
Head of BBC programme acquisition Sue Deeks mentioned: “Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime is an absorbing collection about France’s most infamous sexual predator, and of how he was allowed to slide by the cracks of the judicial system for over 30 years. Every episode is informed from the angle of a unique character concerned within the case – a sufferer, the choose, the mayor, the scientist, the police officer and at last, the perpetrator, and is a gripping examination of the failings of a society and its establishments.”
The collection is produced by What’s Up Movies and Federation Studios in co-production with Versus Manufacturing, initially commissioned by France Televisions. It can air on BBC iPlayer.
