French triumph at the Bafta TV, the Césars of British television. The Serie tapie, a Netflix production that tells the life of Bernard Tapie, won the trophy for best foreign series on Sunday, May 12 in London. And this despite strong opponents.
The Serie tapie won against American television heavyweights Successionwho retired in 2023 after four seasons, The last of us, Bear, Relentless and the miniseries love death.
“An unusual character”
Presented in 2023, the series created by Tristan Séguéla (a happy man) and Olivier Demangel (November), traces through his successes and failures “the romantic destiny of an extraordinary character,” according to a Netflix synopsis.
Laurent Lafitte He embodies the famous businessman of a thousand lives, who was a business leader, city minister but also an actor, singer and owner of the Olympique de Marseille.
Without demonizing Bernard Tapie, the series traces his rise to his imprisonment in 1997 in the VA-OM affair, a corruption scandal for which he was imprisoned for almost six months.
“My father wouldn’t have liked it at all.”
The premiere of this seven-episode series was accompanied by controversy. The family of the businessman, who died of cancer in October 2021 at the age of 78, especially expressed his discontent.
His widow, Dominique Tapie, thus denounced the “liberties” taken in the series “about events that have nothing to do with reality” in an interview for Europe 1. “My father would not have liked it at all,” declared his son. Laurent at RMC. “The lack of respect has no limits,” criticized his daughter Sophie Tapie.
Source: BFM TV
