Miniseries · TF1
La Mante
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Frédérique Bel
Virginie Delorme
6 eps
Carole Bouquet
Jeanne Deber
6 eps
Fred Testot
Damien Carrot
6 eps
Pascal Demolon
Commissaire Feracci
6 eps
Robinson Stévenin
Alex Crozet
6 eps
Jacques Weber
Charles Carrot
6 eps
Serge Riaboukine
Sébastien Crozet
6 eps
Manon Azem
Lucie Carrot
6 eps
Élodie Navarre
Szofia Kovacs
6 eps
Garance Thénault
Journaliste hôpital
1 eps
Colette Kraffe
Agnès Séverin
1 eps
Maleaume Paquin
Damien (10 years old)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How La Mante actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
La Mante reads strongest on Serialized, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
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
Jeanne Deber, known as "La Mante", the famous serial murderer who terrorized France more than 20 years ago, is forced by the police to come out of isolation to track down her copycat. She agrees to collaborate on one condition: to have only one interlocutor, Damien Carrot, her son, who became a cop because of the crimes of his mother, and who refuses all contact with her since her arrest.
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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
- Alice Chegaray-BreugnotWriter
- Grégoire DemaisonWriter
- Nicolas JeanWriter
- Laurent VivierWriter
Direction
- Alexandre LaurentDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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