Prime-Video - Totems: the new Amazon Original spy series will be available on February 18

By Mulder, 24 january 2022

Prime Video today revealed the air date for its new French spy series Amazon Original Totems, which will be available on Prime Video starting February 18 in France. 

Prime members will be able to watch the first three episodes of the gripping spy series on that date and then discover new episodes every Friday until the season finale, which will be released on March 11. Niels Schneider, Vera Kolesnikova, José Garcia, Lambert Wilson, Ana Girardot, Aleksei Guskov, Mikhail Gorevoy and Surho Sugaipov are among the cast of Totems. 

Created and written by Olivier Dujols and Juliette Soubrier with François Uzan, Thibault Valetoux, Julien Anscutter, and Sabine Dabadie, the series is directed by Jérôme Salle, Antoine Blossier and Frédéric Jardin. Totems is produced by Isabelle Degeorges and Arnaud de Crémiers, and Olivier Dujols and Jérôme Salle for Gaumont (Narcos, Lupin, El Presidente). The series will also be available exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories worldwide in 2022.

Totems will be added to the thousands of series and movies available in the Prime Video catalog, such as Jack Ryan, Good Omens, Star Trek: Picard, Carnival Row, American Gods, The Boys, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, as well as French Amazon Originals such as Celebrity Hunted: Chasse à l'Homme, True Story Avec, LOL: Qui rit, sort!, Le Bal des Folles, Mixte, and Flashback, all available on Prime Video at no extra cost to Amazon Prime subscribers.

Synopsis: 
In 1965, in the midst of the Cold War, Francis Mareuil (Niels Schneider), a French scientist, begins working as a spy. While collaborating with the French secret service and the CIA, Mareuil meets Lyudmila Goloubeva (Vera Kolesnikova), a pianist forced to work for the KGB. A romance develops between the two spies, but how do they know if it's genuine feelings or political maneuvering?

Totems
A series directed by Jérôme Salle, Antoine Blossier and Frédéric Jardin
Showrunners : Olivier Dujols, Juliette Soubrier
Produced by Isabelle Degeorges, Arnaud de Crémiers, Olivier Dujols and Jérôme Salle
Written by Olivier Dujols, Juliette Soubrier, François Uzan, Thibault Valetoux, Julien Anscutter, Sabine Dabadie
With Niels Schneider, Vera Kolesnikova, José Garcia, Lambert Wilson, Ana Girardot 
Music by Guillaume Roussel
Director of photography: Renaud Chassaing, Antoine Sanier, Axel Cosnefroy
Distributed by Prime Video
Release date : February 18, 2022 (World)
Running time 52 minutes

(Source : press release)