The Bureau

CrimeDrama201550 episodes5 seasonsScripted

Original Title: Le Bureau des légendes

First aired: 2015-04-27

Synopsis

Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.

Creators

Eric Rochant

Casting

  • Louis Garrel
    Andrea Tassone dit « Mille Sabords »
  • Mathieu Amalric
    Jean-Jacques, dit « JJA »
  • Mathieu Kassovitz
    Guillaume Debailly
  • Stefan Crepon
    César dit « Pacemaker »
  • Zineb Triki
    Nadia El Mansour
  • Jonathan Zaccaï
    Raymond Sisteron
  • Sara Giraudeau
    Marina Loiseau
  • Oleksiy Horbunov
    Mikhaël Kharlov
  • Florence Loiret Caille
    Marie-Jeanne Duthilleul
  • Ziad Bakri
    Nadim El Bachir
The Bureau Season 4 Poster

Season 4

In the fourth season, chased by the D.G.S.E. and the C.I.A. all the way to Moscow, intelligence officer Malotru (Mathieu Kassovitz) tries to negotiate his return to France. The D.G.S.E.’s new head of Internal Security, JJA, initiates a full-spectrum audit of The Bureau and its new chief Marie-Jeanne, with the clear-cut intention of severing a few heads in the process.

Number of episodes 10