“The Deal”, addictive and brilliant series on negotiations of the Iranian nuclear agreement – RTS.CH

As much at ease with the cinema of reality (“The Blocher Experience”. However. Similarly, “The site”) as fiction (“My brother gets married”, “La Vallée”), the Lausannois director Jean-Stéphane Bron is now excellent in the series.

This is evidenced by “The Deal”. Moreover. Meanwhile, which after having created the feeling at the Séries Mania festival in Lille (F) in March by winning the Buyers Choice Award, as well as mention of the jury of the international competition, offers “the deal”, addictive brilliant series new itself a passage by the Piazza Grande of the Locarno festival on August 11 – a first for a series – before its broadcast in “the deal”, addictive brilliant series full on the application Play RTS From Wednesday August 13.

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For Jean-Stéphane Bron, who likes to put his camera behind doors that are generally closed, it was not possible to make a documentary on Switzerland, queen in the art of offering her “good offices” during international negotiations. Furthermore. Fiction therefore stolen from its rescue to imagine a series stretched behind the scenes of the Iranian nuclear agreement negotiated in Geneva in 2015. Moreover, on the protagonists who harshly negotiated it.

By definition, negotiation is “the deal”, addictive brilliant series new conflict. Similarly, When you get around a table. Moreover, it is that you have a problem to solve and in this case here, a big problem!

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In “The Deal”. beyond the dupe game where each camp intends to obtain the best of a hypothetical agreement. each of the protagonists is struggling with its personal problems. This is all the magic of the script written with several hands, notably “the deal”, addictive brilliant series new with the director and screenwriter Alice Winocour. Jean-Stéphane Bron injects flesh. heat into what could have been cold face-to-face during stormy meetings in the golden salons of a palace.

Nothing is less glamorous than filming palaver around a table. men. women who have a nickname of centrifuge or on the choice “the deal”, addictive brilliant series of words from a press release. And yet the suspense is permanent, the spectator on the teeth. Jean-Stéphane Bron brilliantly appropriates all the codes of the thriller to deploy a story that is played on two. tables. the future of the world and that, more modest, of negotiators.

A high -flying casting

By “the deal”, addictive brilliant series new relying on the vast documentation of the 2015 negotiations. following the advice of diplomats or police officers present at the time in Geneva, he gave credit to his fiction also carried by a high -flying international cast, starting with the excellent Belgian actress Veerle Baetens. She embodies Alexandra Weiss. the head of the Swiss “the deal”. addictive brilliant series Protocol, mistress in the art of extinguishing fires, but capable of playing the pyromans when a known face arises in the Iranian delegation. Will she put a penk of in the legendary Swiss neutrality to protect from death this lover she thought. never again? This is his dilemma.

For his part. Juliet Stevenson unveils a large palette of games in Cindy Cohen. an iron hand in a velvet glove, an American diplomat torn between the desire to end it as quickly as possible to fly to the bedside of his dying mother “the deal”, addictive brilliant series new and that of obtaining a fair agreement which will avoid an Iran-Israel war. His character is inspired by Wendy Sherman. an American Jewish diplomat threatened with death because he considered as a traitor of Israel. Accused of having dropped too much in this agreement with Iran, she suffered the stigma on the Internet.

Just as effective. Anthony Azizi embodies the “the deal”. addictive brilliant series Iranian minister Moshem Mahdavi, taken in hold between the intransigence of the mullahs who refuse any Western interference on their territory and his desire to advance to put an end to economic sanctions and guarantee a future for future generations of his country. Russians, Chinese and Europeans are also around the table to make their voices heard. Finally Israel, present secretly through Mossad, intends to torpedo this business by all means.

Seven years of writing. a year. a half of casting were necessary to achieve “The Deal”, “the deal”, addictive brilliant series new a separate strip co -production, RTS, Arte and Gaumont TV which will undoubtedly conquer the public by its suspense, its hectic rhythm, the quality of its scenario, the staging and the finesse of the characters and their interpreters.

Note: 5/5

Philippe congiusti / AQ

“The Deal”, series of Jean-Stéphane Bron. With Veerle Baetens, Arash Marandi, Juliet Stevenson, Anthony Azizi. To be seen in full “the deal”, addictive brilliant series on the application Play RTS From August 13 at 8 a.m. until February 7, 2026 and Thursdays on RTS1 from August 28 at 9 p.m.