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LatestWhile the DGSE sets a plan in motion to divert Moktar’s attention, the 45 launch their assault to extract Sab...
The French Special Forces are deployed in Iraq, on the eve of the battle of Mosul, in October 2016. The members of this commando have the mission of finding and exfiltrating the daughter and the grandson of an important French Emir of Daesh who captured and who will cooperate with them only on this condition.
Direction
Doueiri shoots war like a horror film — intimacy over spectacle.
Writing
Every alliance is transactional. Trust no one.
Production
Mosul's claustrophobia feels authentically suffocating.
Creators
Ziad Doueiri, Duong Dang-Thai, Corinne Garfin
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