Carried by François Civil, Omar Sy and Mathieu Kassovitz, “Le chant du loup” is a thriller broadcast on M6 this Tuesday at 9:10 p.m. Its title is inspired by a technical term used in the navy.
Viewers will dive 20,000 leagues under the sea on M6. The sixth channel broadcasts this Tuesday evening, at 9:10 p.m., the French thriller “The song of the wolf“. Directed by Antonin Baudry, this film was released in 2019. We follow a team of submariners working in the nuclear industry. Their mission is however jeopardized when one of them, who has “the ear d’or”, makes a mistake with dramatic consequences.
If you are unfamiliar with the language of the Navy, this plot may seem arcane. And for good reason, “Le Chant du loup” uses several technical terms that we hear only in the navy. Right down to its title. Indeed, the term “wolf song” designates the specific sound produced by a diving sonar to locate the position of a submarine.
This noise can be spotted by submariners who are nicknamed “golden ears”. These are the ones who use acoustic analysis to identify, from the sound picked up from the ocean, the threats to come, since there are no portholes in the submarines. They can thus advise their commander on the maneuver to follow, since hearing the song of the wolf generally means that a great danger is approaching for the sought-after submarine. And it is all this specificity that serves the scenario of Antonin Baudry’s film, to discover this evening on the TV program.