Women at War (TV series)

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Women at War
Created by	Cécile Lorne
Directed by	Alexandre Laurent
Starring	Audrey Fleurot Julie de Bona Camille Lou Sofia Essaïdi
Original language	French
No. of episodes	8
Production
Producer	Iris Bucher
Production location	France
Production company	Quad Drama
Budget	20 million euros
Original release
Network	TF1, Netflix
Release	September 2022

Woman at War is an eight-episode Franco-Belgian historical miniseries created by Camille Treiner and Cécile Lorne and originally aired on Belgian and French television in September 2022.

It has been available on Netflix since October 28, 2022 for French viewers and since January 19, 2023 internationally. It was on the Netflix top 10 shows in 58 countries the following week..

Synopsis

1914, during WW1, the destinies of four women intersect: Marguerite de Lancastel, a mysterious Parisian sex worker; Caroline Dewitt, propelled to the head of the family factory; Mother Agnès, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent; and Suzanne Faure, a feminist nurse.

Distribution

• Brothel
  • Audrey Fleurot: Marguerite de Lancastel
  • Yannick Choirat: Marcel Dumont
  • Florence Loiret Caille: Yvonne Dumont
  • Eden Ducourant : Juliette
  • Emmanuelle Bouaziz: Florence
  • Juliette Poissonnier: Alice
  • Lilea Le Borgne: Solange
  • Laure Franquès: Catherine
  • Candice Pauilhac: Odile

• Covent
  • Julie de Bona: Mother Agnès
  • Camille Lou: Suzanne Faure, military nurse
  • Tom Leeb: Joseph Duvernet, military doctor
  • Laurent Gerra: Abbé Vautrin
  • Marie Mallia: Sister Geneviève
  • Maeva Dambron: Sister Clarence
  • Bélinda Portoles: Sister Bélinda

• Truck Factory
  • Sofia Essaïdi: Caroline Dewitt
  • Sandrine Bonnaire: Éléonore Dewitt
  • Grégoire Colin: Charles Dewitt
  • Lionel Erdogan: Victor Dewitt
  • Stacy Grewis Belotti: Madeleine Dewitt
  • Michaël Vander-Meiren: Jean
  • Aurélie Boquien: Denise
  • Catherine Artigala: Germaine

• French army
  • Tchéky Karyo: General Duvernet
  • Maxence Danet-Fauvel: Colin de Renier
  • Édouard Eftimakis: Lieutenant Léon Duvernet
  • Mikaël Mittelstadt: Gus
  • Thomas Salsmann: Brief
  • Jérémy Wulc: Lieutenant Passembec
  • Hervé Sogne: Colonel Keller
  • Samuel Giuranna: Colonel Lehmann
  • Nicolas Van Beveren: Captain Maurice Delille

• Others
  • Romane Portail: Jeanne Charrier
  • Vincent Rottiers: Lucien Charrier
  • Cassiopée Mayance: Claudine
  • Pascal Houdus: Till von Hoffstaten
  • Jean-Michel Noirey: President Raymond Poincaré
  • Noam Morgensztern (of Comédie-Française) : Louis Compoing

Reception

The series has received an average score of 80% on Rotten Tomatoes and a a weighted average vote of 7,5 / 10 on IMDb.

Joel Keller writes in his review on Decider: "STREAM IT. Women At War starts off a bit dry, but by the end of its first episode, viewers can see that the drama will start to be amped up, beyond the violence inherent in war."

Kayleigh Dray writes for Stylist: "Reactions to the series have been largely positive, with many praising its complex female characters, excellent twists and turns, and unflinching ability to portray 'the true horrors of World War I, both on the field and off of it.' Others, meanwhile, have thanks producers for adopting a non-exploitative approach when weaving the stories of the four women at its centre. And plenty have piled praise on cinematographers for all of those incredible panoramas of the war-ravaged French countryside, too."