Scripted series · Canal+
The Bureau
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Mathieu Kassovitz
Guillaume Debailly
50 eps
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Henri Duflot
21 eps
Sara Giraudeau
Marina Loiseau
50 eps
Léa Drucker
Docteur Balmes
30 eps
Stefan Crepon
César dit « Pacemaker »
20 eps
Zineb Triki
Nadia El Mansour
50 eps
Florence Loiret Caille
Marie-Jeanne Duthilleul
50 eps
Jonathan Zaccaï
Raymond Sisteron
50 eps
Oleksiy Horbunov
Mikhaël Kharlov
20 eps
Mathieu Amalric
Jean-Jacques, dit « JJA »
20 eps
Louis Garrel
Andrea Tassone dit « Mille Sabords »
10 eps
Jules Sagot
Sylvain Ellenstein
50 eps
Moe Bar-El
Shapur Zamani
9 eps
Anne Azoulay
Liz Bernstein
20 eps
Irina Muluile
"La Mule"
50 eps
Alexandre Brasseur
"Pépé"
50 eps
Ziad Bakri
Nadim El Bachir
10 eps
Pauline Étienne
Céline Delorme
30 eps
Artus
Jonas Maury
20 eps
Maryana Spivak
Samara
10 eps
Dinara Drukarova
Chupak
10 eps
Surho Sugaipov
Misha
10 eps
Melisa Sözen
Esrin
10 eps
Michaël Abiteboul
"Mémé"
10 eps
Hacène Benzerari
50 eps
Alba Gaïa Bellugi
Prune Debailly
50 eps
Gwenaël Clause
Rémi
2 eps
Anatolii Panchenko
Bakatine
7 eps
Adriane Gradziel
Jessie
1 eps
Ayumi Roux
La stagiaire comptable
1 eps
Atmen Kelif
Sherif Gherbi
3 eps
Samy Seghir
Yacim Boumaza
4 eps
Sarah Kazemy
Daria Shahafi
5 eps
Brad Leland
YouKnowWho
12 eps
Illyès Salah
Toufik Boumaza
9 eps
Nasser Memarzia
Majid Zamani
4 eps
Serhii Shliakhtiuk
Chauffeur Karlov
2 eps
Donia Eden
Secrétaire Cyclone
1 eps
Jhon Rachid
Mehdi
1 eps
Mohammad Bakri
Ahmad Shahanah
5 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Bureau actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Bureau reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
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
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.
The run
Seasons
5 seasons · 50 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201510 episodes
7.5IMDbBest episode · S01E10 Episode 10
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
201610 episodes
7.7IMDbBest episode · S02E01 Episode 1
Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
201710 episodes
7.5IMDbBest episode · S03E01 Episode 1
Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
201810 episodes
7.6IMDbIn the fourth season, chased by the D.G.S.E. and the C.I.A. all the way to Moscow, intelligence officer Malotru (Mathieu Kassovitz) tries to negotiate his return to France. The D.G.S.E.’s new head of Internal Security, JJA, initiates a full-spectrum audit of The Bureau and its new chief Marie-Jeanne, with the clear-cut intention of severing a few heads in the process.
Best episode · S04E09 Episode 9
Season 5 · Complete
Season 5
202010 episodes
6.7IMDbBest episode · S05E08 Episode 8
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E10
Episode 10
Debailly asks DGSE to help Nadia, but is refused. He attracts the CIA by approaching the Syrians, purporting to represent the Americans, and takes time off to meet the CIA (revealed as the flashforwards shown from Episode Two). Dr Balmes suggests his motivation is not love for Nadia, but craving for the double life he experienced undercover. He agrees to return to the DGSE as a CIA double agent. Meanwhile, Marina disappears in Tbilisi en route to Iran, kidnapped by the Georgian secret service to see from where she seeks help. Cyclone is rescued in an ambush near the border with Mali.
S01E08
Episode 8
Nadia refuses to betray her country, and is angry at Lefevbre's revelations. Ill from the stress of her situation, she confesses to Nadim, and is flown back to Syria. The Russian FSB confronts DGSE and buys its silence. In Algeria, DGSE fails to plant a bug on the General holding Cyclone; Cyclone is handed over to ISIS. Marina is trained to deal with interrogation by Marie-Jeanne, tested by an Iranian agent pretending to be Reza's wife, and offered the Iran secondment. In flashforward, Debailly continues to talk to the CIA; the Americans do not fully believe his story.
- Directed by Laïla Marrakchi
- Written by Camille de Castelnau, Éric Rochant
S04E09
Episode 9
Sisteron warns Marina that her cover has been blown, but that her arrest could help on another crucial assignment. Meanwhile, Malotru parts ways with Samara and comes back to France, where he is to be held in solitary confinement. Back in Syria, Jonas has lost Iode 3’s track and must turn to artificial intelligence to try and find him.
S04E06
Episode 6
Under Karlov’s watchful gaze, Malotru initiates Ellenstein’s recruitment. At the DGSE, Sisteron suspects that Cesar is not ready to go on a mission and will not be able to hold his legend undercover. Back in Raqqa, still under Daesh’s occupation, Jonas and Jean-Paul join a battalion of Yazidi women to track down Iode 3.
- Directed by Laïla Marrakchi
- Written by Capucine Rochant, Éric Rochant
S01E06
Episode 6
Debailly continues to investigate the leads on Cyclone. Nadim traces Debailly's daughter Prune and starts asking about him. Marina and another agent force a colleague at the Institute to refuse the secondment to Iran. Debailly realises that the Syrians and Russians are tailing him, and finally tells Duflot about Nadia and her involvement with the Syria talks. Meanwhile, the DGSE identifies who is holding Cyclone for ransom in Algeria.
S01E04
Episode 4
The episode starts with a flashforward of Debailly continuing to explain his story. Nadim investigates Paul Lefevbre, and tells Nadia not to see him again. But he finds them having dinner, and interrogates Lefevbre. Nadia confesses her true reason for being in Paris, and Debailly realises that their relationship puts her in danger. Meanwhile, Reza starts to flirt with Marina, and she has to rebuff his advances. DGSE tries to find out if the Algerians are holding Cyclone, and must stop his mother travelling there to search for him.
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.
Executive production
- Alex BergerExecutive Producer
Writing
- Capucine RochantWriter
- Camille de CastelnauWriter
- Jacques AudiardWriter
- Éric RochantWriter
Direction
- Laïla MarrakchiDirector
- Jacques AudiardDirector
- Éric RochantDirector
Music
- Robin CoudertOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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