DVD review: The Bureau (4 out of 5)

By The Newsroom
Published 13th Jan 2017, 19:25 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 18:45 BST
Mathieu Kassovitz in The BureauMathieu Kassovitz in The Bureau
Mathieu Kassovitz in The Bureau
When you work as a special agent who can you trust and what is normal life?

Those are some of the many issues behind The Bureau, a gripping ten-episode French political thriller.

Guillaume Debailly (codename Malotru), one of the General Directorate of External Security’s top agents, returns after a six-year undercover mission in Damascus, Syria.

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While there working as a teacher called Paul Lefebvre, he falls in love with Nadia.

When Nadia turns up in Paris he breaks the number one rule and secretly continues his false identity to be with her.

While he is risking it all, the department enters a major crisis when an undercover agent goes missing in Algeria.