LES INNOCENTS
DRAMA / THRILLER
FRANCE
2018
LES INNOCENTS (Int. Title: The Innocents) is a French television miniseries directed by Frédéric Berthe, first broadcast in January 2018 on RTBF in Belgium and on TF1 in France. LES INNOCENTS consists of 7 episodes of 56 minutes.
STORY: Two teens secretly meet in the woods, only to witness a massacre. They are seen by the killer, but try to keep this a secret, both for fear of the killer and for their secret to be revealed.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Two boys, Yann Desgrange (Jules Houplain) and Lucas Moreau (Victor Meutelet), who discover a mutual attraction witness a massacre but decide to keep quiet for fear their relationship will be discovered. They are hunted by the killer while all those who want to expose him are coolly eliminated one after the other. Hélène (Odile Vuillemin), Yann's aunt, leads the investigation with the support of the mysterious Chief Inspector Berg (Tomer Sisley). Amid drug trafficking, a police war and romantic intrigue, Hélène tries to unravel the mystery while protecting her own family.
Yann Desgrange (Jules Houplain) & Lucas Moreau (Victor Meutelet)
JULES HOUPLAIN (2018) February 4, 1999, Paris, France
VICTOR MEUTELET (2018) November 10, 1997, Mainvilliers, France
SPECIAL: It's an adaptation of the Norwegian television series Øyevitne, which has already inspired Eyewitness in the United States and Valea Mută in Romania1, but it shows notable differences from the original, especially in his outcome.
AWARDS: ‘LES INNOCENTS’ none
7.0 IMDB
