Braquo

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Television series
German title Braquo
Original title Braquo
Country of production France
original language French
Year (s) 2009-2016
length 52 minutes
Episodes 32 in 4 seasons
genre Crime series
idea Olivier Marchal
production Capa drama
music Erwann Kermorvant
First broadcast October 12, 2009 on Canal +
occupation
Olivier Marchal (2012)
Jean-Hugues Anglade at the César 2014
Karole Rocher at the César 2012
Nicolas Duvauchelle (2012)

Braquo (derived from braquages, a vernacular term used to describe the word robberies ) is a French police drama - series of Olivier Marchal , were produced by the 2009-2016 four seasons and aired.

Assessment and public acceptance were different - partly due to the drastic presentation. With the French audience, for example, the series achieved higher ratings than comparable US productions, regardless of the gloomy mood and the unvarnished, sometimes extensive depiction of violence .

content

Similar to Breaking Bad , The Shield , Sons of Anarchy, and other recent television series, Braquo is a series with a story that spans all seasons. The focus of the series - 3 seasons with 8 episodes each - is a special unit of the Paris police , which is not very strict with the law and is getting more and more into a maelstrom of corruption , crime , betrayal and mutual revenge campaigns . The main venues are the center of Paris as well as the suburbs and banlieues of the outer western arrondissements in the Hauts-de-Seine department . The head of the unit is Eddy Caplan ( Jean-Hugues Anglade ) - a rude cop who is indifferent to morals and who is particularly loyal to his unit members and their relatives. The remaining members of the team are Walter Morlighem ( Joseph Malerba ), a disillusioned and tired special forces veteran, the young, impulsive Théo Vachewski ( Nicolas Duvauchelle ) and Roxane Delgado ( Karole Rocher ) - a level-headed, loyal policewoman and the calming pole of the Unit.

The starting point of the series are internal investigations against Caplan and his team. Reason: The head of the unit and Caplan's friend, Max Rossi ( Olivier Rabourdin ), who was targeted by the Internal Investigations Department because of severe prisoner abuse, committed suicide in the face of the threat of suspension and imprisonment . The unit wants to wash its reputation clean again. However, it is increasingly entangled in a mixture of revenge campaign in its own interest, normal case investigations and personal attack points. Théo, for example, is addicted to cocaine ; Walter, who has an alcoholic wife and two children, is addicted to gambling and also has debts in the criminal milieu. When Caplan and his team start investigations against the gangster Serge Lemoine, the situation escalates more and more. Lemoine also has a bill against Caplan's team due to cash evidence being diverted into his own pocket and extorted statements. On the other hand, Roland Vogel is the unit on the back of the neck - the chief investigator of the internal department, who leads the fight against Caplan and his team as a campaign and for his part is not picky about his means. In the first season finale there is a showdown after which Vachewski, Morlighem and Delgado are demoted and Caplan is imprisoned.

The second season of Braquo continues elements of the plot from the first: for example, the confrontation with Lemoine and his gang, who are vaguely located in the Sinti milieu. The main storyline is a brutal attack on a gold bar transport with a total of ten dead. It was carried out by insiders - former members of the armed forces , whose unit was burned up in an African civil war and who want to settle old accounts with those responsible for the deployment at the time. Caplan and his team are assigned to the group against appropriate rehabilitation promises. As a result, different groups target the gold bars: Madame Arifa and her Jewish clan, who have teamed up with Lemoine, a Flemish syndicate that wants to bring the stolen gold back into their possession and appears to be interested buyers, as well as am Assault involved gang of former soldiers . In addition, there are high political functionaries and the secret service . Like the first, the second season also ends in a bloody finale, whose doubts remain as to whether Caplan and his troop will ever get back on their feet.

Revenge, violence, loyalty and entanglement are the dominant themes in the third season as well. The main element of the action - and the basis for the renewed deployment of Caplan and his team - is the investigation of the Vory-V-Zakone , a group of the Russian Mafia . When members of this group were caught under fire by a female sniper during an observation , the situation escalated. Caplan and his unit find themselves as characters in a power struggle between rival Russian underworld groups . The third season also offers the obligatory personal connections. For example, the sister of the internal chief investigator Vogel comes into play - as it turns out, the human, sore point of the otherwise relentless, merciless internal official. Like the two previous seasons, the third ends in a bloody - and in contrast to one and two, really marks the end - finale.

Production and broadcast

The executive production company was the TV production company Capa Drama , based in central Paris, with the participation of the French TV pay TV channel Canal + . In addition, involved in the production were based on animated films for children specialized company Marathon Média, loading film and the public Belgian state broadcaster RTBF . The series was written and co- directed by Olivier Marchal. Marchal had previously made a name for himself not only as a director of tough, authentic police and underworld films in the style of Jean-Pierre Melville (films including: 2004 at 36 - Deadly Rivals with Gerard Depardieu , A Gang Story - A Question of Honor 2011 and several episodes of the crime series Kommissar Moulin ). As a former official of the criminal police of Versailles , a member of one - including against the left-wing extremist terrorist group Action directe active - anti-terror special forces and Night Shift official in the 13th district, he himself had nearly 20 years of experience in the police service behind. Other directors involved in Braquo were Frédéric Schoendoerffer (season 1), Philippe Haïm and Eric Valette (season 2) and Fréderic Jardin and Manuel Boursinhac (season 3). As a scene writer of the second and third season of acted Marseille coming screenwriter Abdel Raouf Dafri . Theme song and the remaining series music originated from Erwann Kermorvant - one from Brittany coming film music - composers , who already at the film music of 36 - Deadly rivals had been involved.

The main and supporting roles of the four Braquo seasons are occupied by established genre actors. Jean-Hugues Anglade, best known from the drama Betty Blue - 37.2 degrees in the morning (1986), had already played leading roles in several well-known thrillers - for example in Subway , Nikita , Killing Zoe and Léon - Der Profi . Joseph Malerba also played in Léon ; His oeuvre also includes auteur films and historical material such as Les Misérables (1995) and Jeanne d'Arc (1999). Before joining Braquo , Karole Rocher appeared primarily in French-language auteur cinema films. Likewise Nicolas Duvauchelle, who played a supporting role in the 1999 soldier drama The Foreign Legionnaire . The leading actors listed were flanked by: Olivier Rabourdin as Max Rossi, Geoffroy Thiebaut as internal investigator Roland Vogel, Julie Judd as Vogel's daughter Erica, Wojciech Pszoniak in the role of the Russian gangster patriarch Jossif Wissarionowitsch and finally Alain Figlarz in the role of gangster Serge Lemoine. Figlarz had also starred in Marchall's feature film 36 - Deadly Rivals . Another genre-typical cross connection was Duvauchelle and Rochers participation in Maïwenn's police drama Poliezei (2011; original title: Polisse) parallel to their engagements in Braquo .

Braquo was first broadcast on the co-producing pay TV channel Canal +. The first season was broadcast in October and November 2009, the second in November and December 2011. The third season was broadcast from February 10 to March 3, 2014, the fourth season from September 12 to October 3, 2016. The German first broadcast was the video-on-demand provider Watchever - as did Canal +, an offshoot of the French media group Vivendi . The inclusion in the Watchever offer in February 2014 took place in cooperation with Bild -Movies. According to the series internet portal wunschliste.de , the Austrian private broadcaster ServusTV has also secured the broadcasting rights to the series. The portal listed the summer of 2014 as a possible broadcast date.

All four seasons are available on DVD and BluRay in their original language. At the beginning of 2014, the first two seasons also appeared in Germany as a DVD box. Studio Hamburg , a subsidiary of NDR Media GmbH, is co-publisher of the German-language DVD box . The first season was approved by the FSK from 16. There was no youth release for the second season. In concrete terms, the non-family safe the episodes 1, 3, 4 and 7. All four seasons are occupied -Etikett "18" were broadcast in Spanish synchronization in Spain, as well as an English edition in French original language with English subtitles on FOX UK.

criticism

The critics and the audience rated Braquo differently. When it first aired on Canal +, the first season had more viewers than comparable US series - such as the police thriller series The Shield, which is often used as a comparison . The second season won an Emmy Award in 2012 - for best drama series of the year. The presentation of the series at the Großes Fernsehen festival in Cologne in February 2013 drew a mixed response. The German-language series portal serienjunkies.de, for example, rated the series as high-quality and excitingly staged. The reactions of the Cologne premiere audience, however, according to serienjunkies.de, were rather restrained. In particular, the staging of the brutal cops was felt by many premier participants to be too inauthentic. Summary of the portal on the Cologne performance: "It seems that there are actually series materials that, if the Americans accept them, are more likely to be found plausible by the public than if the same materials are suddenly put into a European context."

Marcus Kirzynowski, the reviewer of the culture web portal torrent-magazin, was similarly unimpressed . He assessed the characters as colorless, the representation of them as clichéd. The Berliner Tagesspiegel rated the series as being fast and tough in the usual US manner. The announcement on cinema.de highlighted - in addition to the acting performance of Jean-Hugues Anglade - above all the severity and brutality of the series. On the other hand, Weltwoche achieved a very positive rating . According to the Swiss weekly, the main topic of the series is the code of honor : “The film policier is often equated with the US version, which is wrong. The French series by Olivier Marchal is also considered France's answer to the cop series 'The Shield'. But 'Braquo' is in the tradition of underworld cinema à la Jean-Pierre Melville. It's about the rules of the game, a moral code that the French celebrate. This is exactly what makes the French series something very special. "

Reviews of the Hanoverian culture portal maschperlensee.de and culturmag.de also delivered similarly positive resumes . Maschperlensee reviewer Holger Nickel was quite impressed with the plot of the series and the staging at his meeting and predicted in the summary of the first season: "The developing story will get stuck in the throat of many." Lutz Goellner at culturmag.de, however, compared Braquo also with the US series The Shield and its main character Vic Mackey. However, he also saw differences in the keynote that made him questionable. In addition, Goellner drew parallels to current political trends in France: “Olivier Marchal's 'Braquo' team is now celebrating the fascist basic attitude of 'we against them' as true heroism and is therefore much closer to political attitudes like those of the tea party than Vic Mackey. This arch reactionary stance is also celebrating political successes in France : Almost a quarter of our neighbors made their mark on the right-wing extremist Front National in the European elections this year . Does this result have anything to do with the success of 'Braquo'? I hope not. Is Marchal's creation still an exciting, well-made and extremely entertaining series? Yes, yes, unfortunately, one would almost like to say. "

Awards

  • 2012 International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series of the Year

List of episodes

season 1

  1. Max - Max
  2. La Ligne jaune - No turning back
  3. La Tête dans le sac - With the head in the noose
  4. L'Autre Rive - The kidnapping
  5. Loin derrière la nuit - No other choice
  6. Tarif de groupe - Free travel to the downfall
  7. Tangente - All good things come in threes
  8. Eddy - rise and fall

season 2

  1. Les Damnés - The Damned
  2. Seuls contre tous - Alone against everyone
  3. Tous pour un - all for one
  4. Chèvres et Chacals - sheep and wolves
  5. Infiltré - Among wolves
  6. Mère (et) patrie - disruptive fire
  7. Au nom du pire - In the name of evil
  8. 4 moins 1 - payday

season 3

  1. Affliction
  2. Nos funérailles
  3. Odessa
  4. Stoukatch
  5. Le Lait et le Miel
  6. Prologue
  7. Andreas
  8. Entre la Terre et l'Enfer

Season 4

  1. À l'ancienne
  2. Ma part d'enfer
  3. Nathan
  4. Pharaohs
  5. 11 virgule
  6. Bankster
  7. Un jeu sans fin
  8. Jusqu'au bout et jusqu'à la fin

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Braquo , moviepilot.de, accessed on December 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Braquo - Season 1 , Holger Nickel, maschperlensee.de, February 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c d A man sees red , Lutz Goellner, CULTurMAG, September 27, 2014.
  4. ^ Braquo 3. À la vie, à la mort - La série . Episode guide on the series' homepage at Canal +. Accessed December 7, 2014 (French).
  5. ↑ a b Online Streaming: Robbers, Pirates, Revolutions , Kurt Sagatz, Tagesspiegel, February 10, 2014.
  6. ↑ ServusTV: Program presentation 2013/14 , Glenn Riedmeier, wunschliste.de, October 15, 2013.
  7. ↑ a b French TV hit BRAQUO appears on Blu-ray Disc ( memento of the original from December 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , tenachtzig.de, October 10, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zehnachtzig.de
  8. ↑ Braquo - Season 2 appears with KJ approval , schnittberichte.de, accessed on April 25, 2014.
  9. ↑ Festival Großes Fernsehen: Braquo and Secret State , Christian Junklewitz, serienjunkies.de, March 2, 2013.
  10. ↑ Festival Big TV: Flics without chic  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Marcus Kirzynowski, torrent-magazin.de, March 2, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / torrent-magazin.de  
  11. ↑ Braquo on DVD: The eight-part police series is the French answer to “The Shield” ( memento of the original from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , cinema.de, accessed December 7, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cinema.de
  12. ↑ Further series: Easy-Rider-Prinz , Wolfram Knorr, Die Weltwoche, edition 17/2013.

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