, alternatively titled ''Start Over'' in English-speaking countries, is a French-Belgian TV crime drama and

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series created by Céleste Balin and Maxime Crupaux, and directed by . Alongside Balin and Crupaux, scriptwriters are Gaëlle Baron, Céline Dréan, Germain Huard and Cécile Leclère. The series stars

Éric Caravaca Éric Caravaca (born 21 November 1966) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.Claire Keim Claire Keim (born Claire Lefebvre 8 July 1975) is a French actress and singer. Biography Keim was born in Senlis, Oise to an architect father and a dentist mother. She is in a relationship with French footballer Bixente Lizarazu, and lives in S ...

as his ex-wife Anna, as ambulance driver Cédric, and

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as Juliette, a police lieutenant. Marc Ruchmann portrays Simon, Anna's clandestine lover and Marc's colleague. ''Année Zéro''s four episodes were broadcast from 3 January 2023 via M6.

Premise

On 31 December 2023, Marc is found murdered in his former office – he had been dismissed after several suspicious patient deaths. Marc's ex-wife Anna, his friend Cédric and Juliette, a police lieutant whose husband died after being operated on by Marc, are mysteriously taken back a year inside a lift. They find Marc celebrating New Year's Day 2023 with his colleagues in the hospital. Back home, Cédric notices there is no trace of his fiancée, Margot, whom he met on Valentine's Day 2023. Juliette is happy reunited with her husband, Karim who is still alive. Anna and Cédric decide to identify Marc's killer. Juliette, reluctant at first, agrees to join them. Each of their decisions changes the year 2023 they had already lived.

Cast and characters

Claire Keim Claire Keim (born Claire Lefebvre 8 July 1975) is a French actress and singer. Biography Keim was born in Senlis, Oise to an architect father and a dentist mother. She is in a relationship with French footballer Bixente Lizarazu, and lives in S ...

as Anna Honoré: Provence General Hospital psychiatrist, Marc's ex-wife *

as Juliette Kharoub: police lieutenant, Karim's wife * as Cédric Giraud: hospital

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, Marc's friend * Marc Ruchmann as Simon Legendre: surgeon, Marc's protégé, Anna's lover *

Éric Caravaca Éric Caravaca (born 21 November 1966) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.Loup-Denis Elion as Stéphane Iannucci: police officer, Juliette's colleague * as Margot de Michelis: aspirant dancer, Cédric's girlfriend, wheel-chair bound after traffic collision * Paul Mauch as Pavel: aspirant dancer, Margot's sometime boyfriend * Sofia Roser as Inès Kharoub: Juliette's ten-year-old daughter * Pierre Laplace as Robert: hospital's security guard * Guillaume Bursztyn as Monsieur Marty (English: Mr Marty): grateful patient, chicken farmer * Gérard Dubouche as Commandant (English: Commander): Juliette, Stéphane's boss

Production

''Année Zéro'' was created by Céleste Balin and Maxime Crupaux, who co-wrote its four episodes with Gaëlle Baron, Céline Dréan, Germain Huard and Cécile Leclère. ''n.b.'': ''Echo'' was later re-titled ''Année Zéro''. The director for the series is . Filming occurred in mid-2022 under the working title, ''Echo'', for M6. Initial filming used southern France locations at

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, city and Communes of France, commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the Subprefectures in France, s ...

, Marseille, and

La Ciotat La Ciotat (; ; in Mistralian spelling ''La Ciéutat''; 'the City') is a Communes of France, commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region in Southern France. It ...

; while later material was shot in the Paris region. A disused wing of the Centre Hospitalier Robert Ballanger (Robert Ballanger Hospital Centre)) in

Aulnay-sous-Bois Aulnay-sous-Bois () is a Communes of France, commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre zero of France. The commune has been awarded fo ...

, was used for scenes depicting the fictitious Provence General Hospital's cardiology department. Barma explained,

joined the cast due to its script:

Episode guide

References

External links

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