

“With a big-name cast in place, known both here in France and internationally, we are confident the drama will engage the TF1 audience and beyond with the support of Banijay Rights,” Della Vella continued.įiction’ Air, which is part of Banijay, is the production vehicle founded by Nagui, one of France’s most famous TV hosts and producers. “Les Disparus de la Forêt Noire” is a tense and gripping thriller, with premium production values bringing a cinematic feel to the drama,” said Carole Della Valle, executive producer at Banijay Studios France. Meanwhile, veteran French officer Franz Agerland (Tcheky Karyo) joins forces with young German police officer Erik Maes (Gregory Fitoussi) to investigate the case. Yet, this macabre discovery revives memories Hartmann believed to be buried. The victims are both French and German, with the murders committed over three decades. Judge Camille Hartmamnn, played by Hélène de Fougerolles, has a connection to the case, her memory has been impaired after a car accident. “Les disparus de la Forêt Noire” is set in the heart of the Black Forest, at a binational military base near the French-German border, where twelve bodies, all men, are found in a mass grave. The premium drama will be distributed internationally by Banijay Rights. We found evidence of neither.Banijay (“Marie Antoinette”) has boarded “Les disparus de la Forêt Noire,” a gritty French thriller starring Hélène de Fougerolles (“Balthazar”), Gregory Fitoussi (“St Tropez,” “Spiral”) and Tcheky Karyo (“The Missing,” “Baptiste”).Ĭommissioned by TF1, “Les Disparus de la Forêt Noire,” is co-produced by Banijay Studios France, Fiction’Air, Belga Productions and RTBF. If the meme were true, that would mean that almost three times as many people had gone missing in one small area of the country in 2013, an event that would warrant both major media coverage and a large-scale criminal investigation. To give you an idea, The Bundeskriminalamt, Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office, in its report on missing persons, said that a total of 6,400 people were missing in Germany in 2007 - and that number included cases that were as many as 30 years old. There's also no basis for the claim that 15,000 people went missing in 2013 - or any other year - in the Black Forest.Germany's Initiative on Missing Children did not mention the forest as an area of particular concern, nor the The European Child Rescue Alert and Police Network on Missing Children.ġ5,000 is such an astronomically high number that the meme is clearly inaccurate. This area is essentially lowland plains-hence the name Lower Saxony! This shot is actually on top of the last few hills that soon sink into the state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony).

This photo was taken during autumn in Hameln, Germany, which is the birthplace of the infamous Rattenfänger-or Pied Piper, as we Americans know it. Jonathan Manshack took the photograph, which National Geographic chose as the Photo of the Day on 11 June 2011: The Black Forest is outlined in green on the map (left) and the city of Hameln is marked in red (right).
