A convoy of civilians in the cold of Ukraine, the day after the Russian invasion in 2022. This is the pitch for the second season of Sentinelsthe series which delves into the reality of French forces deployed abroad. The first season took us to the heat of Mali. This time we are in the Ukrainian cold.
Lieutenant Anaïs Collet, played by Pauline Parigot, takes advantage of a leave to go to Donbass to attend the birth of her child with her partner. Julien Ravalet left the army to join the secret services. He is going to escort this colleague and all those who came to Ukraine for a surrogacy out of the country, when the Russian invasion begins.
A sort of long road movie. This is what screenwriter Frédéric Krivine wanted. “It is indeed a convoy of French and Belgian civilians, supervised by soldiers who are trying to get out. It is trying to show the public, to what extent sometimes behind the news in a flash from France Info which tells us that it There is such a drama happening, what is the concrete reality experienced by the people who experience it up close?”
For this second season, Frédéric Krivine, also author ofA French villagedid not want to repeat himself, after a first season set in Mali. “Anaïs Collet, who was really the heroine of season 1, really asked herself questions about the meaning of her mission as a soldier. To do good, not to do good, to obey orders or not. Well, I didn’t have no desire to do this again elsewhere.
So, it was really interesting to say: we talked about the war in season 1, a certain war that France is waging in Mali. There, we’re going to talk about how soldiers, but also French civilians and others, have lives completely turned upside down by the war, people who we generally see very little in war series.”
Louis Peres plays the character of Julien Ravalet who left the army for the DGSE, he became a spy under the cover of a Red Cross agent. “It was filmed in Lithuania, near Vilnius and in fact, we were plunged into the cold, the night, the snow. Exactly like in season 1, we were in the Moroccan desert, there, we didn’t have It’s hard to imagine the cold and harshness of Ukraine.”
During this journey, the convoy encounters Ukrainian refugees who are leaving their homes. Sentinels-Ukrainea gripping dive into an invaded country. To discover on Ciné + OCS.
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