The Bureau

The Bureau

TV-MA 2015 · 5 seasons · 50 eps · ★ 8.2 · Crime, Drama

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Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.

Created by Éric Rochant

Network: Canal+

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Mathieu Kassovitz Guillaume Debailly
Sara Giraudeau Marina Loiseau
Zineb Triki Nadia El Mansour
Florence Loiret Caille Marie-Jeanne Duthilleul
Jonathan Zaccaï Raymond Sisteron
Jules Sagot Sylvain Ellenstein
Irina Muluile "La Mule"
Alexandre Brasseur "Pépé"
Hacène Benzerari
Alba Gaïa Bellugi Prune Debailly
Léa Drucker Docteur Balmes
Pauline Étienne Céline Delorme

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