Shock Waves ( French: Ondes de choc) is a Swiss television drama anthology series, broadcast by Radio Télévision Suisse in 2018. [1] The series consisted of four television films dramatizing true crime stories from European history.
The episodes premiered theatrically at the Solothurn Film Festival in February 2018, [2] and two episodes of the series, Diary of My Mind and First Name: Mathieu, received theatrical screenings in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, [3] prior to their television premieres in July. All four episodes were later screened at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival. [4]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | "Diary of My Mind ( French: Journal de ma tête)" | Ursula Meier | Antoine Jaccoud, Ursula Meier | July 13, 2018 | |
Madame Fontanel (
Fanny Ardant), a school teacher, must confront the effects of having been made an unwitting accomplice to a murder committed by her student Benjamin (
Kacey Mottet Klein), when he confesses to the murder and his motivations in a homework assignment he turned in to her just before committing the crime.
[5] | |||||
2 | "Sirius" | Frédéric Mermoud | François Decodts, Laurent Larivière, Frédéric Mermoud | July 13, 2018 | |
Based on the
Order of the Solar Temple fires at
Salvan in 1994, a cult prepares for a mass ritual suicide.
[1] | |||||
3 | "First Name: Mathieu ( French: Prénom: Mathieu)" | Lionel Baier | Lionel Baier | July 20, 2018 | |
Based on the real life case of serial killer
Michel Peiry, teenager Mathieu (Maxime Gorbatchevsky) copes with being the sole survivor of a serial killer after being kidnapped and raped but escaping.
[6] | |||||
4 | "The Valley ( French: La Vallée)" | Jean-Stéphane Bron | Jean-Stéphane Bron, Alice Winocour | July 20, 2018 | |
Shock Waves ( French: Ondes de choc) is a Swiss television drama anthology series, broadcast by Radio Télévision Suisse in 2018. [1] The series consisted of four television films dramatizing true crime stories from European history.
The episodes premiered theatrically at the Solothurn Film Festival in February 2018, [2] and two episodes of the series, Diary of My Mind and First Name: Mathieu, received theatrical screenings in the Panorama section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, [3] prior to their television premieres in July. All four episodes were later screened at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival. [4]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | "Diary of My Mind ( French: Journal de ma tête)" | Ursula Meier | Antoine Jaccoud, Ursula Meier | July 13, 2018 | |
Madame Fontanel (
Fanny Ardant), a school teacher, must confront the effects of having been made an unwitting accomplice to a murder committed by her student Benjamin (
Kacey Mottet Klein), when he confesses to the murder and his motivations in a homework assignment he turned in to her just before committing the crime.
[5] | |||||
2 | "Sirius" | Frédéric Mermoud | François Decodts, Laurent Larivière, Frédéric Mermoud | July 13, 2018 | |
Based on the
Order of the Solar Temple fires at
Salvan in 1994, a cult prepares for a mass ritual suicide.
[1] | |||||
3 | "First Name: Mathieu ( French: Prénom: Mathieu)" | Lionel Baier | Lionel Baier | July 20, 2018 | |
Based on the real life case of serial killer
Michel Peiry, teenager Mathieu (Maxime Gorbatchevsky) copes with being the sole survivor of a serial killer after being kidnapped and raped but escaping.
[6] | |||||
4 | "The Valley ( French: La Vallée)" | Jean-Stéphane Bron | Jean-Stéphane Bron, Alice Winocour | July 20, 2018 | |