Sophie: A Murder in West Cork

Season

2021

6.8

The documentary follows the investigation of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, a French film and TV producer who was killed while at her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, Ireland, in 1996.

Clips & Trailers

Trailer #1

Episode List

S1 • E1

The World Turned Upside Down

In 1996, a French woman is found brutally murdered near her rural Irish home just before Christmas, leaving her tight-knit community in shock.

S1 • E2

The Suspect

With the investigation heating up, police focus their attention on an unlikely suspect: a local journalist who had first reported on the murder.

S1 • E3

Justice

As the years pass, the case grows increasingly bizarre with multiple arrests, recanted testimony and allegations of police corruption.

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Cast

Barry Roche

Self - Irish Times Journalist

Eugene Gilligan

Self - Garda Forensic Detective

Bertrand Bouniol

Self - Sophie's Brother

Marie Madeleine Opalka

Self - Sophie's Aunt

Peter Bielecki

Self - Sculptor and Schull Resident

Elizabeth Wassell

Self - Writer and Former Schull Resident

Len Lipitch

Self - Jewellery Designer and Schull Resident

Dermot Dwyer

Self - Garda Detective Superintendent

Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud

Self - Sophie's Son

Frédéric Gazeau

Self - Sophie's Cousin