New French crime drama Les Ombres Rouge begins filming

French crime drama is, as we now know, worth keeping an eye on. Spiral, Witnesses and the recent acquisition by Netflix of La Forêt mean that the country really is doing good work in the genre.

Now we hear (via The Medium Is Not Enough and Le Blog) that a new six-part crime series is on the way. Furthermore, the filming of the series Les Ombres Rouge (The Red Shadows) has begun today for French channel C8.

This series features Nadia Farès (pictured), Manon Azem, Antoine Duléry, Lannick Gautry, Raphael Lenglet ex Candice Renoir), Mhamed Arezki, Rémi Pedevilla, Héléna Soubeyrand and André Oumaski.

The story goes something like this…

1993. Five-year-old Clara Garnier. His kidnappers are demanding a huge amount of money for his release. The exchange of the ransom ends in a bloodbath: Clara’s mother is killed and the child is gone forever. The whole mystery and brutal conclusion causes huge trauma in the region and in his family, one of the most prominent in the Côte d’Azur region. 25 years later, Aurore Garnier (Farès), Clara’s older sister, is now a police officer. During an investigation, she discovers that Clara (Azem) is still alive but lives under another identity without knowing her true origins. Aurore will do everything for Clara to find her family, but this unexpected return will trigger a series of violent events and bring to the surface family secrets that everyone thought were buried forever…

Sounds interesting, non?