«Cannabis» Arte's new series coming soon to your home

Next Thursday, December 8 at 8:55pm, Arte to broadcast «Cannabis» series». Forget about chasing big fish and tailing cops, this series will take you from the small-time drug dealer to the kingpin of Marbella and the Moroccan Rif.

A black series

Directed by Lucie Borleteau, the series will be broadcast in three 50-minute episodes. The director of the 2015 César-nominated feature «Fidelio, l'odyssée d'Alice» is delighted to have been chosen. Guest stars include Christophe Paou, Kate Moran, Yasin Houicha and Carima Amarouche. The extras are amateurs, recruited on location.

This fiction is about shit trafficking between Morocco , the hub of Marbella and the Paris suburbs. For filming in France, the production team borrowed the code name «The Princess. Producer Tonie Marshall explains to L'Obs that this code name facilitated access to the shooting location. Officially, the teams were authorized to film in the city of Aubervilliers and Pantin under the name «The Princess». It remains to be seen how the members of the Town Hall will react after seeing the deception on Arte.

 »The main characters are crooks.»

A shipment of pot disappears in Spain, All the repercussions on every stratum of trafficking follow. While «The Wire» focuses on the day-to-day lives of cops and small-time drug dealers, the Cannabis« series deals only with the illegal side of the trade. It should be noted that the Arte series will not show the nice little smoker on his sofa. joint rolling either, but an approach to environmental violence, pressure and murder.

Watch Arte on December 8 at 8:55pm. The episodes will be available on the channel's Replay for 7 days. Episodes 4, 5 and 6 will air on Thursday, December 15. A preview is scheduled for December 6 at MK2 Quai de Loire, Paris, by invitation only.