''Dolmen'' is a French TV miniseries consisting of six 90 minute-long episodes, and starring

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. It was written by

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and Marie-Anne Le Pezennec, and broadcast for the first time between 13 June and 18 July 2005 on TF1.

Synopsis

The story is set in Ty Kern, an island off the coast of

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(which is, in real life, Belle-Île-en-Mer). In Ty Kern, four families are connected by ancient rivalries and secrets: the Kersaints, the Le Bihans, the Pérecs, and the Kermeurs. Marie Kermeur, a young police lieutenant, returns to the island to marry her childhood love, Christian Bréhat. But on the day before their wedding, strange events begin to happen. The bloody corpse of a seagull is brought in by the tide, Marie is assaulted by strange nightmares during the night, her brother Gildas is found dead, and

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s near the town begin to ooze blood. Aided by an inspector from the mainland, Lucas Fersen, Marie decides to clarify these strange phenomena. It is now that a series of deaths begin.

Cast and characters

Family tree

Kermeur family

Proprietors of a hotel. * Marie, lieutenant of the Gendarmerie in

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(

) * Millic, Marie's father (later known not to be so) (Jean-Louis Foulquier) * Jeanne, Marie's mother (later known not to be so) (Martine Sarcey) * Gildas, Marie's other brother (Luc Thuiller) * Loïc, Marie's brother (Manuel Gélin) * Nicolas, Loïc's son (Tom Hygreck)

Pérec family

* Yves, medical doctor and

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(Marc Rioufol) * Chantal, Yves' wife ( Catherine Wilkening) * Aude, daughter of Yves and Chantal (Lizzie Brocheré)

Kersaint family

* Arthus,

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(Georges Wilson) * Pierre-Marie ("PM"), Arthus' son (Hippolyte Girardot) * Erwan de Kersaint, Arthus' son and Marie's real father (both secrets later to be revealed) (

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) * Armelle, Pierre-Marie's wife (Laure Killing) * Juliette, daughter of Pierre-Marie and Armelle (Emilie de Preissac)

Le Bihan family

Owners of a '' faïencerie'' (factory for fancy pottery) * Yvonne, head of the business (Nicole Croisille) * Pierric, Yvonne's mentally handicapped son (Chick Ortega) * Gwenaëlle (often shortened to Gwen), Yvonne's daughter (Micky Sébastian) * Philippe, Gwenaëlle's husband (Didier Bienaimé) * Ronan, son of Gwenaëlle and Philippe (Thomas de Sambi)

Other characters

* Christian Bréhat, Marie Kermeur's fiancé, a famous

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captain (

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) * Anne Bréhat, Christian's sister, owner of a

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at Ty Kern (Brigitte Froment) * Lucas Fersen, major in the Brest Gendarmerie (Bruno Madinier) * Patrick Ryan (false identity adopted by Erwan de Kersaint),

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* Stéphane Morineau, head of computer forensics for the Brest Gendarmerie (Richard Valls)

Technical details

* Directed by: Didier Albert * Screenplay: Marianne Le Pezennec and

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: TF1 and Marathon Productions

Filming locations

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of Ty Kern: port of

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, Belle-Île-en-Mer. * ''Faïencerie Le Bihan'': the faïencerie HB-Henriot,

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. * The lighthouse: the lighthouse of the Kermorvan peninsula, at

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. * ''Site de Guénoc'' (English: ''Guénoc place''—the bleeding menhirs): built with

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on a metallic structure on the Kermorvan peninsula, near the lighthouse at

. * ''Château des Kersaint'' (the castle of the Kersaint family): Château de Kerouartz, in

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. It is an early 17th-century mansion, where a woman was, in fact, murdered.

International broadcast

* Basque Country: ETB2, October 2006 — November 2006 *

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, June 2005 – July 2005 *

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: RTL 2, November 2006 *

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References

External links

*{{IMDb title, id=420388 2000s French drama television series Television shows set in France 2005 French television series debuts 2005 French television series endings TF1 original programming