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Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1958)

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes poster
Genre
crime
Country
France
Length
3 seasons, 145 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This French crime series follows police investigators as they solve each case in the final moments before a deadline. The show focuses on the step-by-step process of uncovering clues and questioning suspects.

methodicalclassicintriguingunderstatedsteady-pacedmysteriousobservationalnostalgicgrounded

What happens

Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (French: [le sɛ̃k dɛʁnjɛʁ miˈnyt]; English: The Last Five Minutes) is a French crime television series created and written by Claude Loursais, broadcast from 1 January 1958 till 20 December 1996. The show was aired in four series on several channels. The first series was broadcast in 56 episodes between 1 January 1958 and 7 November 1973 on RTF. After an intermediary series of four 90-minute episodes were broadcast from 19 July 1974 to 16 January 1975, a second 72-episode series was broadcast from 1975 to 1993, then a third 17-episode series from 1993 to 1996 was broadcast on Antenne 2. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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