Dolmen (miniseries)

Dolmen is a French TV miniseries consisting of six 90 minute-long episodes, and starring Ingrid Chauvin.[1] It was written by Nicole Jamet and Marie-Anne Le Pezennec, and broadcast for the first time between 13 June and 18 July 2005 on TF1.[2]

Dolmen
Kermorvan lighthouse
GenreCrime miniseries
Screenplay byMarianne Le Pezennec
Nicole Jamet
Story byNicole Jamet
Marie-Anne Le Pezennec
Directed byDidier Albert
Eric Summer
StarringIngrid Chauvin
Catherine Wilkening
Yves Rénier
Xavier Deluc
Theme music composerFrédéric Porte
Country of originFrance
Original languageFrench
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Running time90 minutes
Production companiesTF1
Marathon Productions
Release
Original networkTF1
Original releaseJune 13, 2005 (2005-06-13)

Synopsis

The story is set in Ty Kern, an island off the coast of Brittany (which is, in real life, Belle-Île-en-Mer). In Ty Kern, four families are connected by ancient rivalries and secrets: the Kersaints, the Le Bihans, the Pérecs, and the Kermeurs. Marie Kermeur, a young police lieutenant, returns to the island to marry her childhood love, Christian Bréhat. But on the day before their wedding, strange events begin to happen. The bloody corpse of a seagull is brought in by the tide, Marie is assaulted by strange nightmares during the night, her brother Gildas is found dead, and menhirs near the town begin to ooze blood.[3]

Aided by an inspector from the mainland, Lucas Fersen, Marie decides to clarify these strange phenomena. It is now that a series of deaths begin.

Cast and characters
Family tree
vieux Pérec
Yves
?Aude
Chantal
?Anne
?Christian
Marie
Gildas
Millic
?
JeanneNicolas
Loïc
Yvon
Yannick
Hervé
Pierric
Yvonne
Gwenaëlle
Ronan
Philippe
unborn
Armelle
Juliette
ArthusPierre-Marie
?Erwan
Mary
Sean
Tom

Kermeur family

Proprietors of a hotel.

  • Marie, lieutenant of the Gendarmerie in Brest (Ingrid Chauvin)
  • Millic, Marie's father (later known not to be so) (Jean-Louis Foulquier)
  • Jeanne, Marie's mother (later known not to be so) (Martine Sarcey)
  • Gildas, Marie's other brother (Luc Thuiller)
  • Loïc, Marie's brother (Manuel Gélin)
  • Nicolas, Loïc's son (Tom Hygreck)

Pérec family

Kersaint family
  • Arthus, Châtelain (Georges Wilson)
  • Pierre-Marie ("PM"), Arthus' son (Hippolyte Girardot)
  • Erwan de Kersaint, Arthus' son and Marie's real father (both secrets later to be revealed) (Yves Rénier)
  • Armelle, Pierre-Marie's wife (Laure Killing)
  • Juliette, daughter of Pierre-Marie and Armelle (Emilie de Preissac)

Le Bihan family

Owners of a faïencerie (factory for fancy pottery)

  • Yvonne, head of the business (Nicole Croisille)
  • Pierric, Yvonne's mentally handicapped son (Chick Ortega)
  • Gwenaëlle (often shortened to Gwen), Yvonne's daughter (Micky Sébastian)
  • Philippe, Gwenaëlle's husband (Didier Bienaimé)
  • Ronan, son of Gwenaëlle and Philippe (Thomas de Sambi)

Other characters
  • Christian Bréhat, Marie Kermeur's fiancé, a famous Yacht racing captain (Xavier Deluc)
  • Anne Bréhat, Christian's sister, owner of a café at Ty Kern (Brigitte Froment)
  • Lucas Fersen, major in the Brest Gendarmerie (Bruno Madinier)
  • Patrick Ryan (false identity adopted by Erwan de Kersaint), Irish novelist
  • Stéphane Morineau, head of computer forensics for the Brest Gendarmerie (Richard Valls)

Technical details

Filming locations
  • Port of Ty Kern: port of Sauzon, Belle-Île-en-Mer.
  • Faïencerie Le Bihan: the faïencerie HB-Henriot, Quimper.
  • The lighthouse: the lighthouse of the Kermorvan peninsula, at Le Conquet.
  • Site de Guénoc (English: Guénoc place—the bleeding menhirs): built with concrete on a metallic structure on the Kermorvan peninsula, near the lighthouse at Le Conquet.
  • Château des Kersaint (the castle of the Kersaint family): Château de Kerouartz, in Lannilis. It is an early 17th-century mansion, where a woman was, in fact, murdered.

International broadcast

Accolades
Year Awards Category Recipient Result
2006 Globes de Cristal Award Best TV Movie / TV Series Didier Albert Nominated

References
  1. "Ty-Kern, une île très connue, mais peu visitée..." [Ty-Kern, a well-known but little-visited island...]. elfes-bretagne.net (in French). Archived from the original on 22 January 2009. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  2. "Dolmen". a-suivre.org (in French). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  3. "Dolmen - Das Sakrileg der Steine" [Dolmen - The sacrilege of stones]. zweitausendeins.de (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
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