‘Vendetta’, the expected Corsican blood fat drama thriller from Marco Cherqui, who produced Jacques Audiard’s Breakout film ‘A Prophet’, will be brought to the Sales Market in Series Mania by France TV distribution.
Founded on CPB films, behind Rebecca Zlotowski’s 2019 Toronto player “Savages” and the upcoming extension of “A Prophet”, both produced by Cherqui as CPB head of TV drama and cinema, “Vendetta” is produced by public surrounding.
The news about his international distribution launch comes just after “Vendetta” went into production in the first week of March and shot in Corsica.
Invoated as a Mafia thriller and family tragedy, uses the six-part series Anto, a Parisian agent of Corsican origin, who returns to his home country with wife Vanina, to take over the family-winegaard.
In an ambush his father is murdered and Anto, injured, falls into deep coma.
As a child, Anto was sworn to his brother – killed shortly thereafter in a Vendetta – to break the cycle of revenge that his family has to bully pesting for generations. 10 years later he is discovered that his teenage son Santu is obsessed with revenge. “How far will Anto go to protect his son and reclaim his life?” The synopsis asks.
“Vendetta” Toplines Thierry Neuvic (“Code unknown,” hereinafter “) Vahina Giocante (” Bellamy “), Tchéky Karyo (” The Missing “), Stanley Weber (” Borgia “), Laetitia Eïdo (” Fauda “) and Philippe Corti (“).
The Cherqui credits also take up before he arrives at CPB films in 2017, comedy series “Kabul Kitchen”, a Monte Carlo TV Festival Top Prize Winner and, at CPB, popular crime comedy film series “Everybody Lies”.
“Vendetta” is co-written and directed by Ange Baserga (“Dealer”), and also written by Emmanuelle Michaux (“Master Crimes”) and Pierre-Marie Mosconi (“Surf Therapy).
The crime drama agrees with an international distribution sleeve in France TV distribution, the commercial arm of France Télévisions, which also includes renewed comedy series “APSERGIRL” and thriller “Danger in the Valley”, partly written by Michel Bussi (“Prison Island”).