Unit 42 Explained

Native Name:
Genre:	Crime drama
Creator:	Julie Bertrand Annie Carels Charlotte Joulia
Screenplay:	Charlotte Joulia, Julie Bertrand, Sammy Fransquet, Annie Carels, Anne-Charlotte Kassab
Director:	Mathieu Mortelmans, Indra Siera, Hendrik Moonen
Starring:	Patrick Ridremont Constance Gay
Composer:	Michel Duprez and Thierry Plas
Country:	Belgium
Language:	French
Num Seasons:	2
Num Episodes:	20
Runtime:	52 minutes
Company:	Left Field Ventures RTBF
Network:	La Une

Unit 42 (original title: French: Unité 42) is a Belgian television series written by Julie Bertrand, Annie Carels and Charlotte Joulia. It premiered in Belgium on La Une on 19 November 2017, and it was released worldwide on Netflix on 14 June 2019.^{[1] [2]}

After The Break and Public Enemy, Unit 42 came out of the second joint call for projects between RTBF and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

Synopsis

A Federal Police unit fights against new forms of cybercrime. Members include:

• Billie, a hacker, codename: “Th3m1s”;
• Sam, a widowed family man;
• Nassim;
• Bob;
• Alice, a deaf Pathologist.

Cast

Main cast

• Patrick Ridremont as Sam Leroy
• Constance Gay as Billie Vebber
• as Bob Franck
• Roda Fawaz as Nassim Khaoulani
• Danitza Athanassiadis as Alice Meerks
• Thomas Demarez as Tom Leroy
• Simon Caudry as Robin Leroy
• Caroline Stas as Camille Leroy
• Nola Tilman as Emmy Leroy
• Hélène Theunissen as Hélène Janssen

Series 1

• Tania Garbarski as Manuela Desmet
• Anne-Pascale Clairembourg as Sandra Magnot
• as Dianne Wauters
• as Léon Neefs
• Alain Eloy as Henri Ravet
• as Lambert Hammers
• Bastiste Sornin as Michel Van Deck
• Olivier Bonjour as Dominic Dalmot
• Christophe Lambert as Le Ravisseur
• Adonis Danieletto as Marc Descamps

Series 2

• Mirza Kilic as Jocelyn

Production information

• Original title: Unité 42
• Director: Indra Siera (4 episodes), Mathieu Mortelmans (4 episodes), Roel Mondelaers (3 episodes), Hendrik Moonen (7 episodes)
• Screenplay: Charlotte Joulia, Julie Bertrand, Annie Carels, Sammy Fransquet and Anne-Charlotte Kassab
• Costumes: Vanessa Evrard
• Photography: Sander Vandenbroucke
• Editing: Marc de Coster, Philippe Ravoet and Steven Sanders
• Makeup: Elodie Lienard, Juan-Carlos Salazar, Valérie Tomasi
• Special Effects Makeup: Lionel Lê
• Music: Michel Duprez and Thierry Plas
• Producers: John Engel (producer/executive producer); Marie Queffeulou (associate producer); Christelle Mahy (line producer)
• Production companies: Left Field Ventures, Steel Fish Pictures, RTBF
• Country of origin: Belgium
• Original language: French
• Genre: Crime drama, thriller
• Duration: 52 minutes
• Release dates:
  • Season 1:
  • Belgium

19 November 2017 on La Une, 7 October 2019 on VRT

• • • • France: 15 January 2018 on France 2 Switzerland

12 April 2018 on RTS Un

• • Germany and Austria: November 2018 - January 2019 on Sony Channel (German TV channel) (dubbed in German)
  • Season 2:
  • Belgium: 3 November 2019 on La Une and Auvio3

Series overview

Episodes

Season 2 (2019)

Season 2 was produced in 2019 and aired on RTBF La Une on 3 November 2019 after its first exclusive run on Belgian payTV platform Proximus.   

External links

• • • • Les 7 clés d'Unité 42, la nouvelle série belge

Notes and References

1. Web site: "Unité 42", la nouvelle série de la RTBF, intéresse déjà France Télévisions. September 15, 2017. sudinfo.be.
2. Web site: Netflix's 'Unit 42' soars on the chemistry of its unlikely lead partners. June 18, 2019. The Daily Dot.