After All Agnes, a fiction inspired by the novel by Agnes Le Roux, starring Michel Laroque, Yannick Koirat and Marie Zabukovec, another true story, extremely gruesome and disturbing, will form the basis of a new France 2 series. Kata.
“The Cat is a thriller inspired by a true story. It’s the story of a man, nicknamed ‘The Cat’ by the press, who breaks into the homes of the women he targets.”Anne Holmes, Director of Programs and Director of Fiction at France Télévisions, explains exclusively. “An ordinary man who raped these women and it took the police years to catch him”.
According to our information, written by Marine Gatse (Philharmonie) and directed by Indra Sierra (War of the Worlds), this thriller, consisting of six 52-minute episodes, will indeed return to the true story of Roland Cazo, known as “Le Chat”, a seemingly useless father who was arrested In February 2002 in Saint-Georges-de-Marem and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for at least 36 rapes or attempted rapes committed between 1985 and 2002, mostly in Arcachon and the Landes.
The cast of the series has not yet been finalized, but Le Chat is set to begin filming in Marseille at the end of July.
And Anne Holmes, who also confided in us about the end of the tandem and the future of La Stagiaire and Candice Renoir, already promises a thriller in The Fall. This hit British series with Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan followed the hunt for Paul Spector, a good father and loving husband who was killing young women at night in Belfast.
Thus, Le Chat must have a very different tone from Sambre, the mini-series directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, which features Alix Poisson in particular, who will freely return to the case of Sambre’s bully, which has been raging for thirty years. For years, along the river of the same name, which will soon be broadcast on France 2.
“Sambre is a rape photograph from the 1980s to today, a very powerful social photograph”Anne Holmes confides in this other series, which deals with a rape case.
“At the same time – this is the chance of projects that we take – we’re going to launch Le Chat, this creepy investigation of these people who work with you, who seem to be doing very well, who eat, for example, in a canteen. with you, but who will rape someone in the evening when he is bored”.
Source: Allocine
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