Braquo

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.

The first season of Braquo established a record audience for an original production of the channel, and has 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. However, the ending of the third season, with two separate plot strands left unfinished, suggested a possible return. The series was available in the US from Hulu as of September 2013.

Season 4 - and final - 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 to Caplan.

Cast

Episodes

First season (2009)

First broadcast: between 12 October and 2 November 2009 by Canal+.

1. Max
2. La Ligne jaune (The Yellow Line)
3. La Tête dans le sac (Head in a Bag, or Caught Red-Handed)
4. L'Autre Rive (Over to the Other Side)
5. Loin derrière la nuit (Running After the Night)
6. Tarif de groupe (Group Rate)
7. Tangente (Tangent)
8. Eddy

Second season (2011)

First broadcast: between 21 November and 12 December 2011 by Canal+.

1. Les Damnés (The Damned)
2. Seuls contre tous (Alone Against All)
3. Tous pour un (All for One)
4. Chèvres et Chacals (Goats and Jackals)
5. Infiltré (Infiltrated)
6. Mère (&) patrie (Mother (&) Homeland)
7. Au nom du pire (In the Name of the Worst)
8. 4 moins 1 (4 Minus 1)

Third season (2014)

First broadcast: between 10 February and 3 March 2014 by Canal+.

1. Affliction
2. Nos funérailles (Our Funerals)
3. Odessa
4. Stoukatch
5. Le Lait et le Miel (Milk and Honey)
6. Prologue
7. Andreas
8. Entre la Terre et l'Enfer (Between Earth and Hell)

Fourth season (2016)

First broadcast: between 12 September and 3 October 2016 by Canal+ (two episodes per night).

1. A l'ancienne
2. Ma part d'enfer
3. Nathan
4. Pharaons
5. Onze virgule
6. Bankster
7. <TBC>
8. Jusqu'au bout et jusqu'à la fin

See also

• List of French television series

References

External links

• Braquo at the Internet Movie Database
• Season 4 News