Braquo

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Braquo
Created by Olivier Marchal
Written by Olivier Marchal
Abdel Raouf Dafri
Philippe Haïm
Eric Valette
Frank Henry
Yann Le Nivet
David Defendi
Edgar Marie
Hervé Albertazzi
Arnaud Tourangin
Directed by Olivier Marchal
Frédéric Schoendoerffer
Philippe Haïm
Frédéric Jardin
Eric Valette
Manuel Boursinhac
Xavier Palud
Starring Jean-Hugues Anglade
Joseph Malerba
Karole Rocher
Nicolas Duvauchelle
Composer Erwann Kermorvant
Country of originFrance
Original languageFrench
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes32
Production
Producers Hervé Chabalier
Claude Chelli
Production location Hauts-de-Seine
Cinematography Denis Rouden
Jean-Pierre Sauvaire
Laurent Barès
Vincent Muller
Running time52 minutes
Production company Capa Drama
Original release
Network Canal+
Release12 October 2009 (2009-10-12) 
3 October 2016 (2016-10-03)

Braquo is a French crime drama television series created by Olivier Marchal. It was produced by Capa Drama with the participation of Canal+ in association with Marathon Group, Be-Films and RTBF. Braquo was first broadcast in France from 12 October to 2 November 2009.

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The first season of Braquo established a record audience for an original production of the channel and surpassed that of many U.S. productions broadcast by the network. The second season started on Canal+ on 21 November 2011. A third and apparently final season was announced by lead actor Jean-Hugues Anglade in 2011. The ending of the third season, with two plot strands left unfinished, suggested a possible return. The series was available in the US from Hulu as of September 2013.

The fourth - and final - season of Braquo was shot between February and June 2015 in Marseille and Paris. It is directed by Xavier Palud and Frédéric Jardin and written by Abdel Raouf Dafri. It screened in France in September 2016, closely followed by a Spanish broadcast and began airing in the UK in November on FOX UK. [1]

The name of the series comes from the French word braquage, meaning armed robberies, particularly of banks.

Plot

The protagonists are four police agents in the Hauts-de-Seine area of Paris: Eddy Caplan (Jean-Hugues Anglade), Walter Morlighem (Joseph Malerba), Théo Vachewski (Nicolas Duvauchelle) and Roxanne Delgado (Karole Rocher). Their colleague Max Rossi (Olivier Rabourdin) is accused of criminal misconduct, and commits suicide. His guilt is then presumed, disrupting the lives of the other four.

The four police agents then decide to "cross the yellow line": do whatever is necessary, even breaking the law, to clear Rossi's name. In crossing the yellow line, however, they fall under the close scrutiny of Vogel, of the police internal affairs bureau, a sworn enemy of Caplan.

Cast

The main cast of Braquo is made up of the following:

Episodes

SeriesEpisodesPremierFinale
1 8 12 October 20092 November 2009
2 8 21 November 201112 December 2011
3 8 10 February 20143 March 2014
4 8 12 September 20163 October 2016

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References

  1. "Braquo - Saison 1".