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Totems: Created by Olivier Dujols, Juliette Soubrier. With Niels Schneider, Vera Kolesnikova, José Garcia, Lambert Wilson. In 1965, in the midst of the Cold War, a French rocket scientist is thrown in the field for a nearly impossible spy mission and falls for a Soviet woman secretly working for the KGB.
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- 2022-02-18
- Drama, Thriller
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Mar 30, 2021 · Set in the midst of the Cold War in the mid-1960s, Totems follows the experiences of a French scientist who is recruited into working as a spy for the French Secret Service and the American CIA. His allegiances are tested when he develops a relationship with a Russian pianist working for the KGB.
Juliette Soubrier. Second Unit or Assistant Director: Paris, I Love You. Juliette Soubrier is known for Paris, I Love You (2006), Totems (2021) and Le miracle (2013).
- Juliette Soubrier
Mar 15, 2024 · Totems (2021) low-key recreates the scene with a French and a Russian spy and a replica of a Moon between them, thereby setting the stage for a unique love story. Directed by Jérôme Salle, Antoine Blossier, and Frédéric Jardin, and written by Olivier Dujols, Juliette Soubrier, François Uzan, Thibault Valetoux, Julien Anscutter, and Sabine ...
- A Spy Fresco Against A Backdrop of Space Conquest
- A Cold War Story with A Romantic Backdrop
- A Not Manichean Geopolitical Situation
- A Beginning of Female Emancipation
- A Neat Recreation of The 1960s
The engineer is mandated by his godfather, Charles Contignet, a recruiter for the French secret services (Lambert Wilson), who works for the secret services of the SDECE (the ancestor of the DGSE) to approach, during a congress in Berlin, a Russian scientist likely to move west. “At the time of the Cold War, what interested the Soviets and the Amer...
“Francis only lives for his dream, the net space totally misses part of his life. It is no longer passion with his wife Anne and he does not share much with his child. He will be caught up in this completely crazy spy thing, which he initially refuses. But it is also a promise of adventures that will reveal it, but it is also dangerous and destruct...
The actress is delighted with the representation of the USSR in : “My father told me a lot of things and I read a lot on the subject. It's complicated to write about the USSR: there was a lot of violence, lies, betrayals, but also a lot of beauty. » “With hindsight today, the strength of the series is in the representation of the Eastern and Wester...
Anne, the wife of Francis (Ana Girardot), is at the heart of a second plot taking place in Paris. "I didn't say 'yes' right away because I thought the character of Anne Mareuil was too confined to her role as a woman of the 1960s. Olivier Dujols and Jerôme Salle, the director, were very attentive to these requests and have made the character evolve...
From the famous DS to the Berlin Wall via gingham outfits, offers a neat reconstruction of the 1960s and a staging that pays homage to the classic spy films of the time (Hitchcock, John Le Carré. ..). "In terms of staging, Jérôme Salle, who set up the entire visual aesthetic of the series, has this taste for Hitchcock and all things 1960s," explain...
Olivier Dujols, Juliette Soubrier. Season 1 - 8x52' | World PremiereIn French, Russian, English, German, Czech with French & English subtitles Ep. 1&2. Synopsis Set in 1965 in the midst of the Cold War, Totems follows a French scientist, Francis Mareuil, as he begins working as a spy.
While working for the French Secret Service and the CIA, Mareuil meets Lyudmila Goloubeva, a pianist forced to work for the KGB. A romance blossoms between them but neither can be sure what is an expression of their true feelings, and what is the fruit of political shenanigans…. Juliette Soubrier.
