Also known as 'Les Témoins' Directed by Hervé Hadmar Original language(s) French Number of episodes 6 Number of seasons 1 | Genre Police procedural Country of origin France Language French Network France 2 | |
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Created by Marc Herpoux
Hervé Hadmar Original network France 2 (France); La Une (Belgium) Cast Thierry Lhermitte, Marie Dompnier, Laurent Lucas, Jan Hammenecker, Catherine Mouchet Similar Pigalle - la nuit, Les Oubliees, Beyond the Walls, The Disappearance, Spiral Profiles | ||
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Witnesses (French: Les Témoins) is a French television police procedural drama noir series by Marc Herpoux and Hervé Hadmar. It made its debut on Belgian channel La Une on 22 November 2014 and on France 2 on 8 March 2015. It began streaming in the US on Netflix on 1 May 2015 and aired in the UK on Channel 4 from 22 July 2015.
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Witnesses season 1 trailer
Premise
Witnesses is set in the small coastal town of Le Tréport in northern France, where the bodies of murder victims are being unearthed and left for discovery. The former chief-of-police, Paul Maisonneuve (Thierry Lhermitte), is implicated in the murders. Detectives Justin (Jan Hammenecker) and Sandra (Marie Dompnier) investigate the case.
Cast
Dompnier won a Golden FIPA award for the best actress in a television series at 2015's Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming (FIPA) for her part in this series.