CANNES -- Leading French commercial network TF1 on Tuesday unveiled a slate of five major dramas inspired by true-life events, underlining the success of the genre on local turf. Channel chief Etienne Mougeotte said TF1 will make a stand-alone 90-minute drama about the last person to be executed in France, and another on Jacques Mesrine, former public enemy number one who died in a police shoot-out. The network will also make a one-off about the 1985 sinking of the eco-ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand by French secret services, a topic recently tackled by rival pay-channel Canal Plus. TF1 is also making a two-parter called La Dame d'Izieu about Sabine Zlatin, a Polish-born nurse who tried to shelter a group of Jewish orphans in an isolated French house during the war. She was denounced to the Nazis and 44 children were deported to the death camps. Zlatin died in 1996.
- 10/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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