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Totems

TV·2022·Prime Video·Action, Thriller, Espionage·51m·Created by Olivier Dujols, Juliette Soubrier

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Set in 1965 in the midst of the Cold War, Totems follows a French scientist, Francis Mareuil, as he begins working as a spy. While working for the French Secret Service and the CIA, Mareuil meets Lyudmila Goloubeva, a pianist forced to work for the KGB. A romance blossoms between them but neither can be sure what is an expression of their true feelings, and what is the fruit of political shenanigans…

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Niels SchneiderNiels SchneiderFrancis MareuilVera KolesnikovaVera KolesnikovaLyudmila GoloubevaJosé GarciaJosé GarciaVirgile HiriartLambert WilsonLambert WilsonCharles ContignetAna GirardotAna GirardotAnne MareuilAleksey GuskovAleksey GuskovBoris GoloubevMikhail GorevoyMikhail GorevoyDimitri YemelineTim AhernTim AhernLarry Goldstein

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