Scripted series · TF1
Balthazar
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Tomer Sisley
Raphaël Balthazar
38 eps
Hélène de Fougerolles
Hélène Bach
24 eps
Philypa Phoenix
Fatim
38 eps
Gabriel Caballero
Hugo Bach
6 eps
Yannig Samot
Jérôme Delgado
38 eps
Côme Levin
Eddy
38 eps
Pauline Cheviller
Lise Castel
38 eps
Aminthe Audiard
Manon Bach
6 eps
Jean-Louis Garçon
Marwan Akerma
6 eps
Aliocha Itovich
Antoine Bach
6 eps
Anne-Sophie Soldaini
Rose Laborie
1 eps
Leslie Medina
Maya Deval
18 eps
Constance Labbé
capitaine Camille Costes
14 eps
Caterina Murino
Olivia Vésinet
14 eps
Gabriel Caballero
Hugo Bach
1 eps
Aminthe Audiard
Manon Bach
1 eps
Charlie Loiselier
Hervé Keller
1 eps
Agnès Delachair
Emmanuelle Keller
1 eps
Louna Espinosa
Margot Carron
1 eps
Tristan Le Vexier
Paul Courtin
1 eps
Mathias Marty
Rémi Courtin
1 eps
Éric Berger
Marc Laborie
1 eps
Lara Guirao
Florence Laborie
1 eps
Nathalie Bécue
Marie Pastor
1 eps
Théo Poitout-Marchi
Louis Laborie
1 eps
Maël Poitout-Marchi
Théo Laborie
1 eps
Marceau Ebersolt
Baptiste Perrin
1 eps
Thomas Silberstein
Arthur Joncour
1 eps
Bruno Paviot
Sébastien Rivelli
1 eps
Philippe Rigot
Vieux mort 1
1 eps
Martine Demaret
Vieille morte
1 eps
Caroline Bourg
Charlotte Courtin
1 eps
Juliette Plumecocq-Mech
Catherine Meyer
1 eps
Marin Lafitte
Vincent Delcourt
1 eps
Julie Farenc
Florence Delahaye
1 eps
Petra Silander
Iris
1 eps
Anaïs Parello
Clémence Chabert
1 eps
Luna Lou
Lucie Delbart
1 eps
Anthony Martin
Ludwig Roussel
1 eps
Florence Coste
Florence Aubry
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Balthazar actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Balthazar reads strongest on Character Depth, Tension and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Facing a series of complex murder cases, new police commander Hélène Bach must learn to work with the brilliant yet exasperating Raphaël, who can make the dead speak like no-one else.
The run
Seasons
5 seasons · 38 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20186 episodes
8.3IMDbBest episode · S01E02 Death Sentence
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
201910 episodes
9.0IMDb
Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
20208 episodes
9.5IMDbBest episode · S03E08 Red Wedding
Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
20228 episodes
8.9IMDb
Season 5 · Complete
Season 5
20236 episodes
8.8IMDbBest episode · S05E01 Episode 1
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Flesh and Blood
A man and a woman are found dead in their home, and charismatic medical examiner Raphael Balthazar is called to the crime scene. Once there he immediately clashes with his new coworker, the intelligent chief inspector Helene Bach.
S01E04
Soul Mates
While at the cinema, Balthazar is called to help a young couple that has been stabbed. But when Buck interviews their families to figure out what happened, she realizes that there is more than meets the eye to the 'happy' couple.
- Directed by Vincent Jamain
- Written by Nicolas Clément, Clélia Constantine
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Nicolas ClémentWriter
- Clélia ConstantineWriter
- Julie-Anna GrignonWriter
- Clothilde JaminWriter
- Chloé GlachantWriter
Direction
- Jérémy MinuiDirector
- Vincent JamainDirector
Music
- Alexandre FortuitOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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