Igor Tyczka

Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.

After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But a ruthless Police inspector and his equally nasty young subordinate are after the criminal.

Alphonse flees to Paris to escape his wife's despotism. Intoxicated by the frenzied pace of Parisian life, he ruins himself completely. During a nightclub outing, some hoodlums mistake him for Al Gregor, the king of the underworld.

The young Frenchman Jean Monnier, despite his age, holds a position at the New York office of the Holmann Bank. Everything would therefore be going for the best in the best of all possible worlds, if he did not learn, in quick succession on the very same day, first that he is ruined, and second that his wife Fanny has just left him. Enough to make one wish to put an end to it all and leave this vale of tears as quickly as possible.

Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.

It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death and tears ...

This devil of a man plunges the viewer into the very heart of the Voltaire whirlwind, that incandescent mind who shook his century. The series follows his meteoric rise, his exiles, his battles and flashes of genius, in a Europe still tightly bound by absolutism. We discover an unbowed, charming, formidable man whose pen makes ministers, kings and fanatics tremble. Between glittering salons, damp prisons and passionate loves, Voltaire crosses the Age of Enlightenment like a meteor. Each episode reveals a confrontation, a flight, a victory wrested through the sheer force of intellect. Carried by elegant direction and a sweeping, novelistic energy, the series paints a vibrant portrait of a fighter for freedom. A journey into the life of a man who never stopped thinking, loving and provoking.

Martin Gray, whose life has been marked by tragedy and who has overcome terrible hardships, has decided to share his story.