Braquo

Braquo
Created by	Olivier Marchal
Written by	Olivier Marchal Abdel Raouf Dafri Philippe Haïm Eric Valette Frank Henry Yann Le Nivet David Defendi Edgar Marie
Directed by	Olivier Marchal Frédéric Schoendoerffer Philippe Haïm Eric Valette
Starring	Jean-Hugues Anglade Joseph Malerba Karole Rocher Nicolas Duvauchelle
Composer	Erwann Kermorvant
Country of origin	France
Original language	French
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	32
Production
Producers	Hervé Chabalier Claude Chelli
Production location	Hauts-de-Seine
Cinematography	Denis Rouden Jean-Pierre Sauvaire Laurent Barès Vincent Muller
Running time	52 minutes
Production company	Capa Drama
Original release
Network	Canal+
Release	12 October 2009 (2009-10-12) – 3 October 2016 (2016-10-03)

Braquo is a French crime drama television series created by Olivier Marchal. It was produced by Capa Drama with the participation of Canal+ in association with Marathon Group, Be-Films and RTBF. Braquo was first broadcast in France from 12 October to 2 November 2009.

The first season of Braquo established a record audience for an original production of the channel and surpassed that of many U.S. productions broadcast by the network. The second season started on Canal+ on 21 November 2011. A third and apparently final season was announced by lead actor Jean-Hugues Anglade in 2011. The ending of the third season, with two plot strands left unfinished, suggested a possible return. The series was available in the US from Hulu as of September 2013.

The fourth - and final - season of Braquo was shot between February and June 2015 in Marseille and Paris. It is directed by Xavier Palud and Frédéric Jardin and written by Abdel Raouf Dafri. It screened in France in September 2016, closely followed by a Spanish broadcast and began airing in the UK in November on FOX UK.

The name of the series comes from the French word braquage, meaning armed robberies, particularly of banks.

Plot

The protagonists are four police agents in the Hauts-de-Seine area of Paris: Eddy Caplan (Jean-Hugues Anglade), Walter Morlighem (Joseph Malerba), Théo Vachewski (Nicolas Duvauchelle) and Roxanne Delgado (Karole Rocher). Their colleague Max Rossi (Olivier Rabourdin) is accused of criminal misconduct, and commits suicide. His guilt is then presumed, disrupting the lives of the other four.

The four police agents then decide to "cross the yellow line": do whatever is necessary, even breaking the law, to clear Rossi's name. In crossing the yellow line, however, they fall under the close scrutiny of Vogel, of the police internal affairs bureau, a sworn enemy of Caplan.

Cast

Actors	Role	Episodes
Main Characters
Jean-Hugues Anglade	Eddy Caplan	16 episodes
Nicolas Duvauchelle	Théo Vachewski	16 episodes
Joseph Malerba	Walter Morlighem	16 episodes
Karole Rocher	Roxane Delgado	16 episodes
Recurring Characters (Seasons 1 and 2)
Geoffroy Thiebaut	Roland Vogel	13 episodes
Alain Figlarz	Serge Lemoine	12 episodes
Samuel Le Bihan	Gabriel Marceau	10 episodes
Pascal Elso	Vanderbeke	9 episodes
Joël Lefrançois	Roland Fargette	9 episodes
Laëtitia Lacroix	Valérie Borg	6 episodes
Eden Ducourant	Léa Morlinghem	6 episodes
Tristan Aldon	Oscar Morlinghem	7 episodes
Isabelle Renauld	Michelle Bernardi	5 episodes
Fanny Bastien	Catherine Morlighem	4 episodes
Xavier Letourneur	Rocky	5 episodes
Recurring Characters (Season 1)
Valérie Sibilia	Hélène Rossi	7 episodes
Denis Sylvain	Louis Bordier	7 episodes
Yann Pradal	Tintin	7 episodes
Olivier Rabourdin	Max Rossi	2 episodes
Samira Lachhab	Nina	4 episodes
Nozha Khouadra	Sonia Kross	4 episodes
Lilou Fogli	Sara	3 episodes
Michel Duchaussoy	Claude Delgado	3 episodes
Philippe Hérisson	Jean-Baptiste Lornach	3 episodes
Yan Epstein	Borelli	2 episodes
Dominique Bettenfeld	Janko	3 episodes
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam	Charles Rey	3 episodes
Adrien Saint-Joré	Farid Benaissa	2 episodes
Christian Gazio	Jetro	2 episodes
Pauline Angoneman	Yumna	2 episodes
Recurring Characters (Season 2)
Sophie Broustal	Myriam Elmidoro	8 episodes
Hubert Koundé	Jonas Luanda	8 episodes
François Levantal	Aymeric Gauthier Dantin	8 episodes
Dimitri Rataud	Antoine Bleuvenne	7 episodes
Yann Babilée	Savinien Fèvre	6 episodes
Annie Mercier	Madame Arifa	6 episodes
Marc Citti	Latif Arifa	5 episodes
Francis Renaud	Jean-Baptiste Dréan	5 episodes
Martial Bezot	Werner Blitch	4 episodes
Pascal Demolon	Gaëtan Merks	4 episodes
Farid Elouardi	Yannis Fahad	4 episodes
Ludmila Mikaël	Irène Bleuvenne	4 episodes
Julie Mouamma	Mélanie	4 episodes
Salem Kali	Ouari Boumendjel	3 episodes
Virgile Bramly	Daniel Arifa	3 episodes
Manuel Gélin	Le préfet	3 episodes
Steve Tientcheu	Bambesi	3 episodes
Philippe Laudenbach	Lucien	2 episodes
Eric Godon	Hugo Christiaens	2 episodes
Arsène Jiroyan	Atom Paradjanov	2 episodes
Boris Rehlinger	Balmer	2 episodes
Vincent Grass	Breymaert	1 episode
Recurring Characters (Season 4)
Assaad Bouab	Redouane Buzoni	6 episodes

Episodes

First season (2009)

First broadcast: between 12 October and 2 November 2009 by Canal+.

1. Max
2. La Ligne jaune (The Yellow Line)
3. La Tête dans le sac (Head in a Bag, or Caught Red-Handed)
4. L'Autre Rive (Over to the Other Side)
5. Loin derrière la nuit (Running After the Night)
6. Tarif de groupe (Group Rate)
7. Tangente (Tangent)
8. Eddy

Second season (2011)

First broadcast: between 21 November and 12 December 2011 by Canal+.

1. Les Damnés (The Damned)
2. Seuls contre tous (Alone Against All)
3. Tous pour un (All for One)
4. Chèvres et Chacals (Goats and Jackals)
5. Infiltré (Infiltrated)
6. Mère (&) patrie (Mother (&) Homeland)
7. Au nom du pire (In the Name of the Worst)
8. 4 moins 1 (4 Minus 1)

Third season (2014)

First broadcast: between 10 February and 3 March 2014 by Canal+.

1. Affliction
2. Nos funérailles (Our Funerals)
3. Odessa
4. Stoukatch
5. Le Lait et le Miel (Milk and Honey)
6. Prologue
7. Andreas
8. Entre la Terre et l'Enfer (Between Earth and Hell)

Fourth season (2016)

First broadcast: between 12 September and 3 October 2016 by Canal+ (two episodes per night).

1. A l'ancienne (The old way)
2. Ma part d'enfer (My share of hell)
3. Nathan
4. Pharaons (Pharaos)
5. Onze virgule (Eleven decimal points)
6. Bankster
7. Un jeu sans fin (A game without end)
8. Jusqu'au bout et jusqu'à la fin (To the finish and to the end)

See also

• List of French television series

External links

• Braquo at IMDb
• Season 4 News