Les Particules élémentaires

Les Particules élémentaires

2022 · 119 min · ★ 5.4 · TV Movie, Romance, Drama, Crime

2009. Michel Djerzinski, a genius researcher specialized in molecular biology, mysteriously disappears in Ireland. His latest discoveries would have opened the way to a major upheaval in the history of human genetics. This is the occasion for a dizzying plunge in time where we discover his half-brother Bruno, a tortured joker who will meet love in a post-sixties campsite, Janine, Bruno's and Michel's mother, a former hippie who has always refused to raise her children in a conventional way, and Annabelle, with whom Michel will fall in love as a child.

Directed by Antoine Garceau · Written by Gilles Taurand

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Pascale Arbillot Janine Luciani
Déborah François Annabelle Wilkenning
Jean-Charles Clichet Michel Djerzinski
Guillaume Gouix Bruno Clement
Michel Vuillermoz Louis Duplessis
Liliane Rovère Marie Djerzinski
Patrick Mille Serge Clement
Milan Cerisier Bruno Clement

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