The series was a success in its native land of Luxembourg, where it had a record audience.
Netflix NFLX released this February 11 its first crime series from Luxembourg named Capitani. The twelve-part series is a complex well-paced whodunnit crime thriller, pushing the trope of the bad-tempered detective to its extremes. Coproduced by RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg, Artemis Productions, with Film Fund Luxembourg, and then acquired by Netflix, the twelve-part series was a success in Luxembourg when it first aired on RTL in October 2019, attracting a record audience of more than 1.5 million views. Created by Thierry Faber, Capitani is set in the village of Manscheid in northern Luxembourg, where the body of a teenage girl was found in the surrounding forest. Detective Luc Capitani (played by Luc Schiltz) is assigned to the case. However, the detective is not from the village and thus needs the help of the local police, and in particular, policewoman Elsa Ley (played by Sophie Mousel), who personally knows everyone involved in the investigation—it’s a small village. On the scene where the dead body of the teenage girl was found, detective Capitani quickly concludes that it must be suicide after they find drugs on her. “The simplest explanation is usually the right one,” he retorts to the unconvinced Elsa Ley ho knew the victim.
