September 6,2021 Jan Koeppen, president of the EMEA (Europe Middle East Africa) region of the Walt Disney group company has announced during the "Lille dialogues" ;a day of meetings between international audiovisual professionals of the Séries Mania festival; the casting of the four-part fantastic series disney+ is preparing "Oussekine" on Malik Oussekine, who died in 1986 during the repression of a demonstration by the police, and the fight of his family for justice. The mini-series will return to Malik Oussekine affaire, a 22- year-old young man beaten to death by three police officers on the night of 5 to 6, 1986 in Paris. Sayyid Al Alami, who appeared in the film Zombie Child by Bertrand Bonello and the series Messiah on Netflix, which will lend his features in the murdered student, Kad Merad will be the lawyer of the Oussekine family. Maître Georges Keijman and Laurebt Stocker of the Comedie+Francaise (Adieu les cons, une affaire francaise) will play his partner. Also on Disney +, series on Karl Lagerfeld will start shooting soon, a biography of star couturier Karl Lagerfeld, conceived in six 50-minute episodes, the series "Kaiser Karl" will be shot in France and produced by Gaumont ("Lupine") This very first series devoted to Karl Lagerfeld, sometimes nicknamed the Kaiser (the emperor), will be adapted from the biography "Kaiser Karl" written by journalist Raphaëlle Bacqué and published in June 2019, a few months after the death of the emblematic couturier of the Chanel house. Disney +, the American group's streaming platform, will broadcast two series devoted to these two themes.
