6.149 minSeason 5 • Episode 10
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Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.
Writing
Rochant's scripts treat espionage as spiritual rot, not action
Acting
Kassovitz's thousand-yard stare should be studied in schools
Direction
Tight frames that make surveillance feel intimate and suffocating
Creator
Éric Rochant
Mathieu Kassovitz
Guillaume Debailly
Sara Giraudeau
Marina Loiseau
Stefan Crepon
César dit « Pacemaker »
Zineb Triki
Nadia El Mansour
Florence Loiret Caille
Marie-Jeanne Duthilleul
Jonathan Zaccaï
Raymond Sisteron
Oleksiy Horbunov
Mikhaël Kharlov
Mathieu Amalric
Jean-Jacques, dit « JJA »
Louis Garrel
Andrea Tassone dit « Mille Sabords »
Jules Sagot
Sylvain Ellenstein
Anne Azoulay
Liz Bernstein
Irina Muluile
"La Mule"
Alexandre Brasseur
"Pépé"
Ziad Bakri
Nadim El Bachir
Hacène Benzerari
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The DGSE cooperated unprecedentedly with production; real officers consulted on tradecraft, making this the most authentic spy depiction on television.
Kassovitz initially refused the role for three years, fearing the psychological weight of playing perpetual deception—he was right to worry.
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