TF1, Netflix Team on WWII Drama ‘Jackdaws’ Adapted from Ken Follett’s Novel, Starring Laëtitia Casta (EXCLUSIVE)

'Jackdaws' was created and co-written by Camille Treiner whose previous period series 'Women at War' was a hit on Netflix and TF1.

By Elsa Keslassy

Elsa Keslassy

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TF1 and Netflix have teamed on “Jackdaws” (“Le reseau corneille”), a premium WWII drama based on Ken Follett‘s novel and starring Laetitia Casta.

The six-part event series was created and co-written by Camille Treiner (“Women at War”). Thomas Saignes and Raphaël Rocher at Paris-based Empreinte Digitale (“Alter Ego”) are producing with Stéphanie Germain Productions.

Set in May 1944, just days before the D-Day landings, “Jackdaws” tells the story of Elisabeth “Betty” Clairet (Casta), a widowed mother who is tasked with assembling an unlikely commando of five civilian women to carry out a near-impossible mission: infiltrate an impenetrable château housing a key German communications hub and destroy it before the Normandy landings by the Allies.

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