DESIGNATED KILLER
FICTION
Format
90′ for France 2, based on the book by Patrick Dils
Director
Yves Rénier
Adapted by
Jean-Luc Estèbe
Cast
Thomas Mustin, Mathilde Seigner, Yves Rénier
Co-production
Gram Prod
Broadcast
24 January 2018
Distribution
Newen Distribution
PITCH
In September 1986, two children were brutally killed in the suburbs of Metz. This is the beginning of “The Patrick Dils Affair”, one of the most emblematic judicial errors in the annals of French justice. Beyond the miscarriage of justice, it is above all the story of a struggle. The struggle of a mother who becomes a warrior in the face of the judicial machine, and the struggle of a teenager (Patrick was only 16 at the time) who, after 15 years in jail, will emerge, strong, as a man.