THE FROZEN DEAD
| 2017 – 6 x 52′ – Series – Drama, Thriller, Crime.
Created by: Gérard Carré, Pascal Chaumeil and Caroline Van Ruymbeke.
Based on novel by: Laurent Herbiet.
Written by: Pascal Chaumeil.
Directed by: Laurent Herbiet.
Starring: Charles Bering, Julia Piaton, Nina Meurisse, Pascal Greggory, Lubna Azabal, Anne Le Ny, Sophie Guillemin, Robinson Stévenin.
Official Competition COLCOA 2017.
In French with English subtitles.
A Mhz Choice release. |
This 6-part mini-series, set in a foggy Pyrenees winter, stars Charles Berling as Martin Servaz, a homicide cop called to a remote alpine hydroelectric plant to investigate an unusual case. A horse has been decapitated and hung for display. The evidence points to Julien Hirtmann (Pascal Gregory), a notorious and manipulative serial killer now confined in a nearby psychiatric asylum. Is the splayed carcass a gruesome message addressed to Servaz, the man who caught him? Servaz will get his answer in the form of another mad killing, this one perpetrated against a human. Based on the eponymous best-seller by Bernard Minier, this chilling thriller directed by Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass writer Laurent Herbiet, won Best Television Series at the La Rochelle Festival of Fiction TV.