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‘The Staircase’ Filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade on Making ‘Samber,’ a Record-Breaking Series About France’s Most Notorious Sexual Predator
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade discusses his new series 'Samber,' which tells the story of France's most notorious sexual predator.
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind docuseries “ The Staircase,” has once again struck a chord with “ Samber,” a limited series about a French serial rapist that explores the damages of sexual violence against women and children. “Samber,” a six-part thriller series directed by de Lestrade, charts the true case of Dino Scala, a seemingly ordinary family man who sexually assaulted and raped more than 50 women and minors over three decades in Northeastern France. Each episode of “Samber” is seen through the perspective of one character involved in the case, a victim (played by Alix Poisson), the judge (Pauline Parigot), the mayor (Noémie Lvovsky), the scientist (Clémence Poésy), the police officer (Olivier Gourmet) and Scala (Jonathan Turnbull).
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