Impossible on ARTE: Swann Arlaud opposite Fabrizio Bentivoglio, based on Erri De Luca

A fall in the Alps turns into a courtroom drama in Impossible, airing on ARTE Friday, October 23, 2026 at 8:55 p.m.. Emmanuel Finkiel adapts Erri De Luca’s novel and assigns Swann Arlaud and Fabrizio Bentivoglio the two sides of an interrogation: a judge convinced he’s chasing a criminal lead and a man who challenges his reasoning.

Enzo raises the alarm after the death of another walker. The magistrate learns that the two men had belonged to the same Italian revolutionary group decades ago, and that one had named the other. This past gives the judge grounds to suspect a score-settling, though it doesn’t amount to proof of murder.

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The adaptation centers on this very challenge: how to establish what happened when the most plausible explanation is contested by the sole witness? The duel between the two men brings Enzo’s political past into contact with the investigation currently underway. Marilyne Canto and Félicien Philippe Chauveau round out the cast of this TV movie produced by Image et Compagnie for ARTE France.

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