It was blowing a gale on the French president. Emmanuel Macrons’s confidence is down at the kistbotten. But the most secret of the secret intelligence service, the DGSE, the country’s equivalent to the CIA and british MI6, however, have perhaps never had as good times, when it comes to opinion, in any case.
It can partially thank the director and presented by comic artist Eric Rochant. After four seasons of his highly acclaimed spionserie ”False identity” (French premiere in October), have most forgotten the old pr disaster from the 80’s, when the state agents reduced the Greenpeacefartyget the ”Rainbow Warrior” in Polynesia and killed a photographer.
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thanks to the latest round, which is the series ‘ controversial spionstjärna ”Malotru” (played by the charismatic Mathieu Kassovitz) to challenge the russians on their own turf. At the same time tracks the älskansvärda analyst Jonas (Victor Artus Solaro), the French jihadists in the slutstriderna with IS in Iraq and Syria.
Mathieu Kassovitz plays the spy Malotru in ”False identity 4”. Photo: Stephanie Branchu
“Ha Ha, yes some people probably think that I have become smygrekryterad of them for the series gives them a certain glamour that they did not have before,” says Eric Rochant, on the quick visit in Stockholm in connection with a smygvisning of the fourth season.
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The lågmälde, 57-year-old parisaren would probably blend in well in their own succéserie. He is not particularly French wordy, but almost as restrained as their characters. In addition, he has been obsessed with spies since his youth and admits that he wrote into a little bit of himself in most roles. His genombrottsfilm ”Device 238” (”Les patriotes”) from 1994 proved to be a good investment for the future. Twenty years later, the film was a perfect companion to the secret closed room when he wanted to do a ”False identity”.
Mossadagent that infiltrates his own country, proved to be a favorite movie among the real agents of the DGSE, whose nickname, Le bureau des légendes, become the French title of the series (”légende” is aimed at the under cover agents fejkidentitet).
Why he is so crazy about spies, you do not ask, it is the worst thing he knows: ”So stupid!”, he says. On the question of why the series become so successful, he replies, willing that he believe that it is partly about the initial timing.
We pulled up in time at the same time as the major terrorist attacks took place in Paris and it was a lot of focus on the security services in reality. People stopped considering them as so covert and creepy as it was in the past and more as a security enhancement factor.
“we simply wanted that they would do a good job,” says Rochant and sippar at a minimal espresso in the French residence paradsalong at Narvavägen in Stockholm.
Eric Rochant, the creator behind the ”False identity” whose fourth season starts in the SVT on Saturday. Photo: Paul Hansen
” well I can’t say that we have come together so amazing and very good value, but we have enough of a growing mutual respect. I was lucky that they trusted me from the beginning, they thought I was ”one of the good guys”. Now, I regard them as a natural part of the audience. I think they like the series, not because it necessarily is true in their eyes, but because they do not think that we say stupid things about them, ” he says amused and adds:
And because they like the humor, I understand.
as well As during the first three seasons are the geopolitical and nyhetsmässiga the timing is crucial. The fourth season will start on a new bullet, after the loaded season finale in the third grade where Malotru disappeared in the fog.
early Malotru would pop up again right in Moscow. A security arena that Rochant foresight had already explored in his last film ”Möbius” just before he started with the ”False identity”, a movie where Jean Dujardin plays a Russian FSB agent.
– When we write, it feels important to not surf on the surface, without trying to go deeper in what happens storpolitiskt. The world has changed rapidly. The russians play a crucial role in the international storpolitiken. The more or less secret cyberkrigen on the net likewise. Security services the world over, regardless of whether it is the French, the americans or the russians, working digitally, ” says Rochant, who spent a large part of the recordings in Russia and especially in Ukraine.
” We’ll just google it! Jokes aside, we do almost everything on the net, watching documentaries, news reports, youtube clips. Then we read a huge amount. Sometimes we ask an expert to come to our writing space. Later, we took a French expert on jihadist returner who had to come and read the script to check if we got the right tone and the right expressions in the dialogues, ” says Rochant which gets the praise of the DN’s photographer Paul Hansen as he becomes plåtad.
It doesn’t matter how good the stories and how thoughtful of the characters you write, if you do not find the right actor.
Paul Hansen has worked many times in Iraq, been shot at by snipers, and says that ”False identity” makes him feel as if he is back in the firing line. The praise may Rochant to relax properly:
– We have many sources, and have discovered along the way that it is always important to bring in people who value information in slightly different ways. It is a way to get as close to reality as possible.
believe that everything really begins with the casting, with the choice of actor. At the side of the well known names such as Mathieu Kassovitz and, for example, Sara Giraudeau, who plays the iransktalande agent Marine Loiseau, he wants to get the new name of that flower.
” It doesn’t matter how good the stories and how thoughtful of the characters you write, if you do not find the right actor. Personal chemistry is important, both for the feeling and the lawsuits, but just as crucial is to have an actor that can be developed. Take, for example, the character Jonas, everything fell into place when we found the Artus Solara. We needed someone who could deliver the long monologues, but I understood enough how funny and nice he would be.
last season, he was a typical skrivbordsperson, a Mellanösternanalytiker that helped the agents in the field.
– Artus acting meant that it was exciting to go against his slightly geeky personality, take him out on the field and let him work together with the yazidiska female warriors who are fighting against the ICE, ” says Rochant satisfied.
racked out when the continuation of the series.
– Before you know where you are going, it is a small hell, ” he says grimly on the fifth and sixth season that is already underway. At the side of the ”False identity” of the files he also on his new dream project. The name of his company – The Oligarchs Productions – provides a hint that the Rochant will not leave Russia in the first place, even if his French agents draw from there.
– the Next time I want to make real storserie on the Russian oligarchs.
