The “37 seconds” series returns to an unclear maritime drama that has marked in recent decades and the fight of families for the truth.
On January 15, 2004, off the English coast, the Breton trawler Bugaled Breizh suddenly dark by 80 meters deep, leading to the death of the 5 sailors on board. Despite ideal weather conditions and no apparent obstacle, the ship flows in just 37 seconds. Very quickly, doubts emerged on the causes of the sinking, especially since NATO military exercises took place in this area the same day.
These “37 seconds” which marked two decades gave their name to the series which begins on Arte this week, Thursday, April 3. A program created by Anne Landois and Sophie Kovess-Brun, who endeavors to tell, in 6 episodes of 52 minutes, the drama, her gray areas, but also the fight of the families of the victims for the truth. The series 37 seconds In fact focuses on Marie’s fight (interpreted by Nina Meurisse) and the difficult judicial investigation carried out by Master Costil (camped by Mathieu Demy). The series, shot in Brittany, features many known faces like Jonas Blocquet, Anna Tervinka or Antonia Buresi.
37 seconds
If the scenario of 37 seconds Inspires very much real facts, the creators have taken some liberties for dramatic reasons and out of respect for families. Some characters have been created for the needs of fiction. But the main thing is there: to retrace the exemplary struggle of a whole fisherman’s village as closely as possible, the immense pain of loved ones and the feeling of injustice in the face of a truth that seems to escape them. Despite two non-places pronounced by French and then British justice, doubt persists in fact on the causes of the drama, in particular the thesis of a hanging with a submarine, which remains privileged by families.
Carried by a careful realization of Laure de Butler and the actors invested, without ever falling into sensationalism, 37 secondsalready available for a few days on the Arte.TV platform, pays a good tribute to the missing from Bugaled Breizh. At the time of unbridled conspiracy, she also manages to ask the right questions, without providing definitive answers. A way to maintain the suspense for fiction and push the spectator to question the facts.