56 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestIn Doha and en route for Paris, Zahara learns about the attack at Kabul airport. Meanwhile, devastated Gilles abandons his Afghan proteges and evacuates with all the other French. It’s all over.
Kabul, August 14, 2021. The Taliban are at the gates of the city, and France prepares to evacuate its embassy. But the sudden fall of Kabul the next day rushes all the plans. French, Italian, German, American diplomats and the police must improvise the evacuation of hundreds of Afghans and refugees to the airport. While chaos reaches the city, the Afghans will soon have only two choices: to kneel or to run away.
Direction
Real-time chaos that feels documentary-raw.
Acting
Zaccaï's diplomat unraveling in real time.
Production
Morocco stands in terrifyingly well for Kabul.
Creators
Thomas Finkielkraut, Olivier Demangel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Finkielkraut and Demangel interviewed actual evacuees and diplomats; several characters are composites of real people who requested anonymity. The French foreign ministry initially pressured against production.
Released as Western governments debate new refugee policies, the series deliberately mirrors 2021 news footage shot-for-shot in several sequences — including the infamous helicopter on the embassy roof.
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