Olivier Marchal Shooting ‘Bastion 36’ With Victor Belmondo, Tewfik Jallab & Yvan Attal For Netflix

Melanie Goodfellow
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French director Olivier Marchal has begun filming new police thriller Bastion 36 for Netflix, which is billed as a contemporary cop drama adapted from Michel Tourscher’s novel Flic Requiem.

Set in Paris, the movie revolves around Antoine Cerda, a senior police officer with the prestigious Investigation and Intervention Brigade, who is transferred to the Anti-Crime Brigade after being sanctioned by the General Inspectorate of the French National Police. The move sees him turn his back on his former comrades and unit, led by the charismatic Sami Belkaïm.

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When two officers from his old squad are killed in less than 24 hours and a third goes missing in mysterious circumstances, Cerda embarks on his own investigation. His inquiries will reveal an intense police rivalry and take him on a terrible downward spiral.

The movie is not a sequel but takes the director back to the world of Marchal’s 2004 police thriller Precinct 36 (36 Quai des Orfèvres), starring Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil.

The cast features Jean-Paul Belmondo’s grandson Victor Belmondo (Breaking Point), Tewfik Jallab (Blood Coast), Yvan Attal (Of Blood and Money), Juliette Dol (Yes I Do) Soufiane Guerrab (Lupin).

The movie is produced by French film and TV company Gaumont for Netflix.

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