Les Particules élémentaires

Jan 31, 2022

1h 59m

★ 5.4

Overview

2009. Michel Djerzinski, a genius researcher specialized in molecular biology, mysteriously disappears in Ireland. His latest discoveries would have opened the way to a major upheaval in the history of human genetics. This is the occasion for a dizzying plunge in time where we discover his half-brother Bruno, a tortured joker who will meet love in a post-sixties campsite, Janine, Bruno's and Michel's mother, a former hippie who has always refused to raise her children in a conventional way, and Annabelle, with whom Michel will fall in love as a child.

Genres

TV Movie

Romance

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Storia Télévision

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Cast

Janine Luciani

Pascale Arbillot

Annabelle Wilkenning

Déborah François

Michel Djerzinski

Jean-Charles Clichet

Bruno Clement

Guillaume Gouix

Louis Duplessis

Michel Vuillermoz

Marie Djerzinski

Liliane Rovère

Serge Clement

Patrick Mille

Bruno Clement

Milan Cerisier

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