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Television: TF1 prepares a mini-series on the Grégory affair – Monde

After the documentary series “Grégory” from Netflix, TF1 is working on the fiction adaptation of the Grégory case, as part of a new collection of mini-series on criminal cases, the channel told AFP on Thursday. , confirming information from Télé-Loisirs magazine.

TV magazine reported that the filming of the first season of this collection called “A French affair” would begin next month in the Vosges. “A French case” is “a collection of mini-series inspired by major criminal cases that have shaken the country and divided public opinion,” said AF1 TF1.

According to the channel, the format of this fiction in six episodes “will allow viewers to form an opinion, as fair as possible, of this still unresolved affair”, and this by presenting the views of the main protagonists.

Prestigious casting

This first mini-series of “A French Affair”, written by Jérémie Guez and Alexandre Smia, will be produced by Christophe Lamotte, who has already piloted TV movies for TF1 like “The First Forgotten” and “The share of suspicion”.

It will bring together a prestigious cast, with Guillaume de Tonquédec in the role of gendarme Sesmat (first investigator of the case), Blandine Bellavoir and Guillaume Gouix who will play the parents of Grégory, Christine and Jean-Marie Villemin.

Michaël Youn (already noticed in another dramatic drama from TF1, “Les bracelets rouges”) will play the journalist Jean-Michel Bezzina. And actress Dominique Blanc will slip into the skin of Marguerite Duras.

The Grégory affair has already seen several adaptations to television in the form of documentaries or fiction, including “L’affaire Villemin”, a telefilm broadcast on France 3 in 2006, and “Grégory”, a documentary series broadcast since the end of 2019 on Netflix. (Afp / nxp)

Created: 16.01.2020, 19h54

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