After the successful documentary series on Netflix relating to the Grégory affair, it is TF1 which attacks this news item remaining one of the most emblematic of these last thirty years. The chain launches out in a new collection of mini-series on criminal cases baptized "A French affair", she indicated this Thursday to Parisien, confirming information of the magazine Télé-Loisirs.
For the first season, six 52-minute episodes will be devoted to the Grégory affair, with filming scheduled to begin in February in the Vosges, the scene of the boy's murder, in 1984.
"A French case" is "a collection of mini-series inspired by major criminal cases that have shaken the country and divided public opinion", details TF1, which wants each episode to be devoted to a protagonist's point of view. The chain hopes that this format "will allow viewers to form an opinion, as fair as possible, about this still unsolved affair".
Blandine Bellavoir and Guillaume Gouix, Villemin parents
This first season of "A French Affair" was written by Jérémie Guez and Alexandre Smia and will be directed by Christophe Lamotte. The latter has already piloted TV movies for TF1 like "The First Forgotten" and "The share of suspicion".
It will bring together a prestigious cast, with Guillaume de Tonquédec in the role of gendarme Sesmat (first investigator on the case), as well as Blandine Bellavoir and Guillaume Gouix who will play the parents of Grégory, Christine and Jean-Marie Villemin.
Michaël Youn (already noticed in another dramatic drama from TF1, "Les bracelets rouges") will play the journalist Jean-Michel Bezzina. And actress Dominique Blanc will slip into the skin of Marguerite Duras. There are also, among others, Laurent Stocker in the role of judge Lambert who killed himself in 2017, as well as Michel Vuillermoz who will play the journalist Jean Ker and Thierry Godard to play the police officer Jacques Corazzi.
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The Grégory affair has already seen several adaptations to television in the form of documentaries or fiction, including “L'affaire Villemin”, a TV movie broadcast on France 3 in 2006, and “Grégory”, a documentary series broadcast since the end of 2019 on Netflix.