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The Deal


Séries Mania 2025

International Competition

World premiere
Drama - Political | France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland | 2024

Screened episode(s) : 1 & 2
Format : 6 x 46min

2015 – Switzerland hosts last-chance nuclear talks between the US and Iran, with Europe, Russia and China. Swiss diplomat Alexandra leads the mission, where rising tensions and delegates’ hidden agendas threaten fragile diplomacy.  But when her former love Payam—a threatened Iranian engineer—appears, Alexandra finds herself crossing lines to protect him. The world’s peace is at risk, how far will she go?

Our take

In this enthralling drama, the director Jean-Stéphane Bron take us to Geneva and the heart of the infernal machine that is diplomacy. With the brilliant Veerle Baetens in the main role, The Deal depicts the secrets of a power which weighs its words carefully. Despite the seeming calm of Lake Geneva, will Swiss neutrality survive?

  • Created By Jean-Stéphane BRON, Alice WINOCOUR
  • Written By Jean-Stéphane BRON, Alice WINOCOUR, Eugène RIOUSSE, Julien LACOMBE, Stéphane MITCHELL, Valentine MONTEIL
  • Directed By Jean-Stéphane BRON
  • Music Amine BOUHAFA, Gast WALTZING, Christian GARCIA-GAUCHER
  • With Veerle BAETENS, Juliet STEVENSON, Arash MARANDI, Anthony AZIZI, Sam CRANE, Alexander BEHRANG KESHTKAR
  • Production Bande à Part Films, LES FILMS PELLEAS, Gaumont Télévision, Bidibul Productions, Versus Production, ARTE France
  • Broadcaster RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse
  • French Broadcaster ARTE France
  • International sales Gaumont

2 Screenings :

They will be there
Jean Stephane BRON
Creator, Screenwriter, Director
Switzerland
Alice WINOCOUR
Creator, Screenwriter
France
Juliet STEVENSON
Actress
Royaume-Uni
Fenella WOOLGAR
Actress
Royaume-Uni
Arash MARANDI
Actor
Iran
Eugène RIOUSSE
Screenwriter
France
Amine BOUHAFA
Compositeur·trice
France