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The Crimson Rivers (2018)

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Original title
Les Rivières pourpres
Genre
crime film
Country
Germany, France, Belgium
Length
4 seasons, 32 episodes
Rated
NR
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 76 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two police detectives investigate a series of brutal murders in a remote French alpine town. They uncover a web of secrets connected to a prestigious university and a dark local legend.

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What happens

The Crimson Rivers (French: Les Rivières pourpres) is a French-language crime thriller television series created by Jean-Christophe Grangé and follows Grangé's 1998 novel Blood Red Rivers and its 2000 film adaptation. It has been broadcast in Romandy since 6 September 2018 on RTS 1, in Belgium and France, from 26 November 2018 to 10 October 2022 on France 2, and in Germany since 5 November 2018 on ZDF. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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