A new face that explodes the screen. Since its broadcast on France 2 in mid-November, Sambre has been both a critical and popular success.
The six-episode miniseries drew between 3 and 3.7 million viewers, placing it second in the audience for its first two nights of airing and its first finale night.
Since then, Sambre has even allowed France 2 to break a record that dates back to 2019, with almost a million extra people on D+8 for the launch night of a mini-series.
A mini-series inspired by a dramatic true story
As a reminder, Sambre is loosely inspired by the so-called “Sambre Bully” case. In the late 1980s, in northern France, women were raped early in the morning, always in the same way, on the same road along the Sambre River.
The police, who do not understand the scope of the case, do not establish a connection between them. The justice system quickly finds itself overwhelmed with accumulated files.
It will take thirty years to arrest a man who during that period does not stop attacking women and who is responsible for at least fifty rapes or sexual assaults.
Adapted from the eponymous work by journalist and screenwriter Alice Gero, Sambre chronicles the hunt for the “Sambre Outlaw” from 1988 to 2018, and the way the latter has managed to slip through the cracks all that time.
Each episode takes a different point of view, alternating between that of the victim, the justice system, the political authorities, the scientific team, the police, or even the perpetrator.
The cast of the miniseries includes Alix Poisson (Parental Instructions, Jeux d’influence, Germinal), Pauline Parigo (HPI, Sentinels), Noemi Lvovsky (I’m Not Afraid of Life, Camille Repeats), Clemens Poesy (Harry Potter, In Therapy, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon), as well as Olivier Gourmand (The Promise, Rosetta, Intimate Faith).
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But the show’s breakout star is undoubtedly Jonathan Turnbull, whose portrayal of Enzo, a character inspired by “The Bully of Sambri,” has caught the eye.
Born in Morocco in 1994, Jonathan Turnbull moved to France with his family as a teenager. Not at all destined to become an actor, after participating in the young theater course, he enrolled in the Florentine course. He eventually pursued this path through the influence of those around him who recognized his talent.
Since 2017, Jonathan Turnbull has appeared in several films (Mes provinciales, Ronde de nuit), but mainly thanks to the series Sentinelles (OCS), in which he plays one of the main roles, Jonathan Turnbull became famous. 2022. In the same year, the young man plays in Paris Revoir, next to Virginie Efira and Benoit Magimel.
In 2024, Jonathan Turnbull is expected in Sentinelles season 2, but also in the international series Paris is fallen (Canal+), Tewfik Jalab (Engrenages seasons 7 and 8, Oussekine, Pax Massilia), Ritu Arya (Last Christmas, Umbrella) . Academy), or even Emmanuel Bercot (Mon roi, Polisse, L’Abbé Pierre, une vie de combats).
If Sambre ended last night on France 2, we still got to see Jonathan Turnbull’s moment on the small and big screen…
Source: Allocine
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