Pierre Prèvert
I Compagni Di Baal

THE REVIEW

"What is the first of the kings?"
"The first of the kings is Baal, the three-headed demon who reigns over the eastern part of hell."

"How many legions does he command?"
"Sixty-six."

Directed by Pierre Prèvert. Screenplay by Jacques Champreux.

"The Companions of Baal" appeared on screens back in 1969.

A 7-episode series (each lasting 1 hour) set in France, a France that, over the course of the series, will show us its darker and more shadowy side.

The Companions of Baal are a secret, criminal organization.

They operate in the dark, in the depths of the city, underground (the latter set in the caves of Naours, near Amiens). One cannot escape their rules, at the cost of the "final solution": death.

Traps, hidden passages, cemeteries, chases in the dead of night in the woods, assassins, hooded figures, secret meetings...

Hubert de Mauvouloir (Jean Martin) is the leader of the sect. A man with shadowy eyes, master of many disguises (throughout the episodes we will see him donning the false guises of various characters).

Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) is a journalist. His path and that of the sect cross almost by chance, especially after the death of his colleague/mentor Jacques Arnaud known as Diogenes (Raymond Bussières).

At Claude's side in this adventure will be his best friend Pierrot Robichat (Gérard Zimmermann), a girl, Françoise Cordier (Claire Nadeau), and Commissioner Pépère (René Lefèvre who, 3 years earlier, played another commissioner, Ménardier, in another famous series from the '60s: Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre).

A perfect and unmissable cocktail of adventure, suspense, noir, mystery, esotericism, gothic atmospheres.