On Saturday November 2 at 9:05 p.m., France 3 broadcasts River Brigade. A detective TV film on the water, taking advantage of quite original filming locations…
For her new TV film on France 3, director Bénédicte Delmas didn’t do things by halves, taking a very close interest in these brigades who do their duty on the rivers of France… This gives the unprecedented soberly titled River Brigadecarried by an impeccable casting, including Thomas Jouannet, Roxane Turmel, Roby Schinasi and Ibrahim Koma. Actors who performed in particularly physical scenes, in unique locations.
River Brigade : investigation in troubled waters
Today’s TV film will take us immersed in the River Brigade of Gendarmerie 37. Nicknamed Brigade Flaubert, it makes the difference thanks to particularly trained men and women, combining classic investigative work and diving expertise. Under the control of Commander Victor Flaubert, it reigns over an entire part of the Loire Valley, for interventions on land, but also in the depths of the region’s waterways. One case will nevertheless shake this experienced team, the discovery of the lifeless body of a young woman, in the trunk of a sunken car… A crime which will ultimately lead our investigators to the gates of the Château de Chambord.
River Brigade : filming as close as possible to reality
To give a framework to her TV film, director Bénédicte Delmas trusted production director Franck Épaud. Tourangeau, he “directed the location in Touraine” as he confided in the columns of The New Republic. Thus, alongside sequences filmed in Blois and at the Château de Chambord, we will see Saint-Martin-le-Beau, Luynes and L’Île-Bouchard, as well as the banks of the confluence of the Loire and the Cher at Villandry. Sometimes, it was not easy, between “impressive floods”and the use of several vessels: “We have play boats, those of the gendarmerie, but also a boat for the camera, others which are used for logistics and the delivery of equipment. Finally, there are rescue boats with aquatic rescuers and the blocking boats which prevent any kayaks from entering the camera’s field of vision.” A whole organization, in short, so that this fiction does not take on water!
