A Whodunit Featuring Dali and Magritte, ‘This is Not a Murder Mystery’ Raises the Bar for Flanders

The series is one of the biggest shows ever made in Flanders.

By Kevin Giraud

Kevin Giraud

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It takes a very special kind of creative mind to bridge surrealist art and whodunit TV productions. But it’s also fitting that “This is Not a Murder Mystery,”, a surprising crime drama set in the flamboyant 1930s following a group of young Surrealist artists, including Dali and Magritte, was born in the surrealist minds of Belgians.

Based on an original idea by Matthias Lebeer & Christophe Dirickx, directed by “The Serpent” helmer Hans Herbots and written by Christophe Dirickx & Paul Baeten, the six-part 54-minutes episode series is produced by Panenka, which got very early and continuous support from Belgian public broadcaster VRT, before becoming an ambitious European TV series. 

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