Shock Waves (TV series)
Swiss television series
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Shock Waves (French: Ondes de choc) is a Swiss television drama anthology series, broadcast by Radio Télévision Suisse in 2018.[1] The series consisted of four television films dramatizing true crime stories from European history.
| Shock Waves | |
|---|---|
| Ondes de choc | |
| Genre | Drama anthology |
| Original language | French |
| No. of episodes | 4 |
| Original release | |
| Network | Radio Télévision Suisse |
| Release | 13 July – 20 July 2018 |
The episodes premiered theatrically at the Solothurn Film Festival in February 2018,[2] and two episodes of the series, Diary of My Mind and First Name: Mathieu, received theatrical screenings in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival,[3] prior to their television premieres in July. All four episodes were later screened at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival.[4]
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | "Diary of My Mind (French: Journal de ma tête)" | Ursula Meier | Antoine Jaccoud, Ursula Meier | July 13, 2018 | |
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Madame Fontanel (Fanny Ardant), a school teacher, must confront the effects of having been made an unwitting accomplice to a murder committed by her student Benjamin (Kacey Mottet Klein), when he confesses to the murder and his motivations in a homework assignment he turned in to her just before committing the crime.[5] | |||||
| 2 | "Sirius" | Frédéric Mermoud | François Decodts, Laurent Larivière, Frédéric Mermoud | July 13, 2018 | |
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Based on the Order of the Solar Temple fires at Salvan in 1994, a cult prepares for a mass ritual suicide.[1] | |||||
| 3 | "First Name: Mathieu (French: Prénom: Mathieu)" | Lionel Baier | Lionel Baier | July 20, 2018 | |
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Based on the real life case of serial killer Michel Peiry, teenager Mathieu (Maxime Gorbatchevsky) copes with being the sole survivor of a serial killer after being kidnapped and raped but escaping.[6] | |||||
| 4 | "The Valley (French: La Vallée)" | Jean-Stéphane Bron | Jean-Stéphane Bron, Alice Winocour | July 20, 2018 | |
