• 2016
  • TV-14
  • 25m
Faits divers, l'Histoire à la une

Summary In 1936, Abe Sada, a former geisha, kills her lover then slices his sex. In an ultra-controlled Japan, the press is passionate about this true crime story which has inspired the film In the Realm of the Senses of Oshima. View more details

  • 2016
  • TV-14
  • 25m

Faits divers, l'Histoire à la une

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Patricia Cornwell Nicolas Picard-Dreyfuss Claire Blandin Sada Abe

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6.1

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Genres : Crime History Documentary

Release date : Feb 6, 2025

Countries of origin : Germany France

Language : English German French

Production companies : ARTE

Summary In 1936, Abe Sada, a former geisha, kills her lover then slices his sex. In an ultra-controlled Japan, the press is passionate about this true crime story which has inspired the film In the Realm of the Senses of Oshima. View more details

Details

Genres : Crime History Documentary

Release date : Feb 6, 2025

Countries of origin : Germany France

Language : English German French

Production companies : ARTE

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Episode 1 • Sep 08, 2017
Roswell, l'invention des soucoupes volantes/Der UFO-Mythos von Roswell
On 8 July 1947, the US Air Force announced the discovery of a "flying disc" which had crashed in the Roswell area of New Mexico. This was the birth of the flying saucer phenomenon. Against the backdrop of the Cold War, when conspiracy theories abounded, the myth of the UFO gradually took shape to become a recurrent theme in science-fiction movies and popular culture.
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On 31 August 1997, Princess Diana died alongside her companion, Dodi Al-Fayed, in a car crash in Paris, whilst being pursued by paparazzi. Her untimely death prompted an outpouring of grief in Britain and elsewhere in the world, and made her a symbol of the excesses of media intrusion, that was ironically echoed in the coverage of her funeral, broadcast live around the globe.
Episode 3 • Sep 15, 2017
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In August 1933, 18-year-old Violette Noziere poisoned her father in Paris. After a short period on the run, Violette was charged with murder and swiftly confessed to the crime, saying her motive was that her father abused her. The press and public were immediately fascinated by this patricidal teenager, who became known as "The Monster in the Skirt".
Episode 4 • Sep 15, 2017
L'affaire Soleilland, l'enfance assassinée/Der Kindsmörder Albert Soleilland und die Todesstrafe
Paris, January 1907. Albert Soleilland is accused of the rape and murder of a little girl named Marthe. The press details every step of the case as if it was a show. As early century France was on the verge of abolishing the death sentence, this infamous crime set the abolitionist cause back decades. The media strenuously called for Soleilland's execution en masse.
Episode 5 • Sep 22, 2017
Jack l'éventreur, l'invention du serial killer/Jack the Ripper - Der Mythos des Serienmörders
In 1888, a series of gruesome murders shocked London: The perpetrator was dubbed "Jack the Ripper". This was the Victorian era, when puritanism reigned and forensic science was in its infancy. How did these factors combine to create one of the most renowned crime stories in history, resulting in the construction of the serial killer?
Episode 6 • Sep 22, 2017
Fritz Haarmann, un vampire dans la République de Weimar/Fritz Haarmann - Der Schlächter von Hannover
In 1924 in Hanover, Germany, untold numbers of bones were found by authorities, and the news immediately hit the press. A prime suspect, Fritz Haarmann, was quickly arrested. The heinous crimes committed by the one now called "the vampire" reminded the German people of the traumas of the Great War. Cruelty, sexual violence, and cannibalism in the fragile Weimar Republic.
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Episode 8 • Oct 06, 2017
Le massacre de la Saint Valentin, l'apogée du gangstérisme/Das Valentinstag-Massaker
In 1929, seven members of Bugs Moran's gang were assassinated in a garage by Al Capone's henchmen. This event was taken up by the press who named it the "Saint Valentine's day Massacre". Carried out during the prohibition, those killings became the newsworthy symbol of gang wars - they consolidated the image of the Italian mobster in the American collective imaginary.
Episode 9 • Oct 06, 2017
Le crash des Andes, l'inavouable anthropophagie/Der Anden-Crash
On October 1972, an Uruguayan plane crashed into the Andes. 72 days later, 16 survivors are found. The incredible rescue fascinated the media across the world. How did they survive? An unspeakable truth gradually emerges: to survive, the survivors ate their dead comrades' bodies.
Episode 10 • Oct 21, 2017
Abe Sada, un crime passionnel au Japon/Abe Sada - Von Liebe und Tod
On May 18, 1936, Abe Sada, a former geisha, kills her lover by "erotic asphyxiation", then slices his sex and inscribes his name in his flesh.

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