Episode #1.1 (13 Dec. 2005)
"Engrenages" Episode #1.1 (original title)

A body of a young woman horrifically disfigured and face covered with a piece of cloth is found in a skip. It is upto a prosecutor, a cop and a judge to uncover the truth, and also discover... See full summary »

Director:

Philippe Triboit

Writers:

Alexandra Clert (creator), Thierry Depambour (writing supervisor),

Stars:

Grégory Fitoussi, Caroline Proust, Philippe Duclos

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Grégory Fitoussi	...	Pierre Clément
Caroline Proust	...	Laure Berthaud
Philippe Duclos	...	François Roban
Audrey Fleurot	...	Joséphine Karlsson
Fred Bianconi	...	Fromentin
Thierry Godard	...	Gilou
Guillaume Cramoisan	...	Benoît Faye
Agnès Sourdillion	...	(as Agnès Sourdillon)
Mirza Halilovic	...	Michel Le Roumain
Vincent Winterhalter	...	Vincent Leroy
Nathalie Boileau
Christine Brücher
Pierre Diot
Marlène Dytrych
Philippe Faure

Storyline

A body of a young woman horrifically disfigured and face covered with a piece of cloth is found in a skip. It is upto a prosecutor, a cop and a judge to uncover the truth, and also discover why the womans sister has also disappeared and where she is. A case of child abuse is also thrown into the melee

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Release Date:

13 December 2005 (France)

Company Credits

User Reviews

good start but

This is a very well structured first episode, with many interesting takes and some commendable acting. Unfortunately, the research work must have been done by people with very little acquaintance with Romanian culture. "Elina" is not an usual name in Romanian, and the Cyrillic alphabet is not in use in Romania and has not been for the past 160 years. The whole investigation starts off by means of the girl's leg plate, and yet it would have made absolutely no sense for it to have had Cyrillic writing on it. Except if she were actually coming from Moldova instead of Romania, but that's probably too much subtlety for the show's research team.