52 minSeason 2 • Episode 6
LatestTo prevent Paul from destroying what she took two years to build, Elisabeth is ready for anything. But prosecutor Djourou is one step ahead ... No one is safe!
Summer 2011: the Swiss financial market is abuzz with the news that Paul Béguelin, the director-general of the private bank Béguelin, was found dead in his office. Is it a case of suicide or score settling? This question is going to haunt his sister Elisabeth. Catapulted to the center stage of the bank, she embarks on an internal investigation. This is the beginning of a long road toward the truth, which will immerse her in the murky mysteries of the bank, her family’s secrets and banking secrecy.
Acting
Laura Sépul's controlled unraveling carries every frame.
Production
Banks as gothic architecture—marble halls hiding moral bankruptcy.
Writing
Swiss banking law as plot engine: boring on paper, devastating in practice.
Creator
Jean-Marc Fröhle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Swiss banking secrecy laws were partially dismantled in 2018; this series captures the final paranoid gasp of that era.
Creator Jean-Marc Fröhle worked in Geneva finance before television; the procedural details of client file access are devastatingly accurate.
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