“Infiniti”, a world thrill not to be missed

A cargo ship is approaching the International Space Station. When docking is close, the image disappears from the space station’s monitors. The cargo ship is slipping dangerously and American Anthony Kurz, the ISS commander, is trying to take…

A cargo ship is approaching the International Space Station. When docking is close, the image disappears from the space station’s monitors. The cargo ship is moving dangerously and American Anthony Kurz, the ISS commander, tries to take control, without success. The dispatcher hits a station that no longer answers. Just before impact, Kurz is heard shouting Anna’s name.

Meanwhile, in the footsteps of Kazakhstan, the police officer Isaak Turgun (Daniyar Alshinov) is called following a surprising discovery: on top of an abandoned building, part of the Destruction, he finds the body of a decapitated man, covered in wax. . The walls of the building are covered with strange signs that resemble petroglyphs. The ID is official, it’s Anthony Kurz.

Thousands of kilometers from France, Anna Zarathi (Céline Sallette), a French astronaut who has been separated from the space program, in the middle of depression, finds herself in the hospital at home. Anna is called Baikonur by the investigative commission.

Two worlds

Several challenges awaited the production of such series: recreating the ISS, filming 6,000 km from France and directing technicians and actors who speak at least five languages. The bet is successful.

Director Thierry Poiraud intelligently combines, on the one hand flashbacks, the scenery of the steppe of Kazakhstan bathed in light, crushed by heat and on the other hand the cold and dark interior of the cosmodrome. At the same time, he plays in keeping several worlds parallel. Scientific and political, whose issues are financial and prestige. But also Kazakh nomads, superstitious and wise, as well as the policeman Isaak Turgun. This layer is truly glorious.

We must also emphasize the quality of the work of the screenwriters Stéphane Pannetier and Julien Vanlerenberghe who managed to develop this incredible story into an unexpected thriller that we cannot leave before knowing the outcome, whatever it may be.