With The forgotten people of the Deltabroadcast on Friday October 25 at 9:05 p.m., France 3 exhumes a dark file from the French colonial past. Find out what little-known historical fact inspired the scenario of this thriller played by Isabelle Gélinas.
Friday October 25, at 9:05 p.m., France 3 broadcasts The forgotten people of the Delta (our opinion), a unitary with Isabelle Gélinas in the shoes of a police thanatologist, leading the investigation in the Camargue marshes following the discovery of skeletons. A thriller inspired by a terrible historical fact, darkening the French colonial past from the 1940s.
The forgotten people of the Delta : What is the TV film with Isabelle Gélinas about?
The starting point of this dark affair begins on a construction site, where human bones are discovered by chance. The investigation is entrusted to commissioner Marianne Prévost (Isabelle Gélinas, soon to return in Don't do this, don't do that), specialized in mass graves. Accompanied by her assistant Lola Hardon (Raphaëlle Rousseau), she will try to find out who owns her human remains. As their investigations progress, the two women will get closer to Magali Galabert (Anne Alvaro), descendant of one of the owners of the land on which the macabre discovery took place, and one of her sons, Anthony (Tom Hudson). Against all expectations, the corpses will turn out to belong to Indochinese workers, forced into forced labor, after the French capitulation to the Nazis in 1940.
The forgotten people of the Delta : The terrible historical fact that inspired the TV movie
To write their scenario, the authors Gilles Cahoreau and Nathalie Hugon unearthed from the past a historical fact as horrifying as it is unknown to the general public, the dark destiny of 20,000 Vietnamese, forcibly immigrated to France, to participate in the effort to war on French territory. Torn from their families more than 8,000 kilometers from home, these unfortunate people were exploited in squalid conditions, notably to harvest Camargue rice, famous for its quality throughout the world. In 2009, the journalist Pierre Daum, specializing in the gray areas of France's colonial past, devoted a book to them entitled Forced immigrants: Indochinese workers in France, published by Actes Sud.
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