9.547 minSeason 2 • Episode 6
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The French Special Forces are deployed in Iraq, on the eve of the battle of Mosul, in October 2016. The members of this commando have the mission of finding and exfiltrating the daughter and the grandson of an important French Emir of Daesh who captured and who will cooperate with them only on this condition.
Direction
Doueiri shoots war like a horror film — intimacy over spectacle.
Writing
Every alliance is transactional. Trust no one.
Production
Mosul's claustrophobia feels authentically suffocating.
Creators
Ziad Doueiri, Duong Dang-Thai, Corinne Garfin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Doueiri previously directed 'The Attack' — he's obsessed with collaborators and complicity. This is his thesis statement.
The real Battle of Mosul lasted nine months; the show's compressed timeline mirrors the soldiers' distorted sense of time under fire.
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