The BBC has acquired French crime thriller Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime, which follows the true story of considered one of France’s most prolific sexual predators.
The six-part collection seems to be 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’s only 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 consists of Alix Poisson (The returned, Six Girls), Clémence Poesy (The Strolling Useless: Daryl Dixon, Tenet), Olivier Connoisseur (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 way of 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 way of the cracks of the judicial system for over 30 years. Every episode is advised from the attitude of a distinct character concerned within the case – a sufferer, the decide, the mayor, the scientist, the police officer and eventually, 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 would air on BBC iPlayer.