Olivier Marchal is filming “Bastion 36” with Victor Belmondo, Tewfik Jallab and Yvan Attal for Netflix
It’s a collaboration that works. After the film Bronx and the series Pax Massilia, director Olivier Marchal is teaming up again with Netflix. He has just started filming a new thriller called Bastion 36, which is billed as a contemporary crime drama adapted from the novel Cop Requiem by Michel Tourscher.
A muscular film
Here is the synopsis revealed by Netflix in its press release:
“Antoine Cerda, police commander at the prestigious BRI, is transferred to the Anti-Crime Brigade following a sanction from the General Inspectorate. He then turns his back on his former comrades in arms and his group, commanded by the charismatic Sami Belkaïm.
Thirteen months later, two members of his former team were shot dead in less than twenty-four hours. When a third mysteriously disappears, Antoine Cerda decides to carry out his own investigation. His research will throw him into the middle of the police war and lead him into a terrible descent into hell.“
Not a sequel
Contrary to what the title might suggest, Netflix specifies that Bastion 36 is not a sequel to 36 Quai des Orfèvres, the second feature film by Olivier Marchal with Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil, which made him famous.
On the casting side, the distribution includes Victor Belmondo (Stop with your lies), Tewfik Jallab (Pax Massilia), Yvan Attal (who returns to the small screen after Bardot and D’argent et de sang), Juliette Dol (My unknown) and Soufiane Guerrab (Lupin).
The film is produced by Gaumont for Netflix.
