Limited series · France 3
The Forest
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Forest actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Forest reads strongest on Serialized, Tension and Bingeability.
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 fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
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
In a small quiet village in the Ardennes, a sixteen-year-old girl disappears into the forest after calling her teacher in the middle of the night. Captain Gaspard Deker, a former soldier and newly arrived single father is conducting the investigation with Virginie Musso, the local cop. Also helping is the teacher, Eve Mendel, a solitary young woman with a mysterious past: she was found as a child by the villiage doctor wandering silently in the same forest.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
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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.
Executive production
- Adrian PolitowskiProducer
- Sylvain GoldbergProducer
- Nadia KhamlichiProducer
- Christophe CarmonaProducer
- Gilles WaterkeynProducer
- Serge de PoucquesProducer
Writing
- Delinda JacobsWriter
Direction
- Julius BergDirector
Cinematography
- Maximiliaan DierickxDirector of Photography
Music
- Etienne ForgetOriginal Music Composer
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