Oussekine: 5 good reasons not to miss this moving French series on Disney +

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Malik Ousekin, the name is engraved in the memory of many. More than 35 years have passed since the tragic events of the night of December 5-6, 1986, in Paris. Disney + Opens the curtain on the original French mini-series soberly named Oussekine.

The first fiction to return to the drama that cost this student’s life thus enables the younger generations, as well as those who have forgotten the facts, to finally discover or rediscover the thrilling story and who is most needed by this young man.

At the end of 1986. When Malik crosses the Latin Quarter and leaves a jazz concert to reach his apartment, he is chased by a group of police officers on duty before brutally beating the same men in the lobby. In the building in which he took refuge. At night the ambulance brigade declared him dead.

A death that marks an entire generation and had a real impact on French society in the 1980s.

Beyond Malik’s tragic fate, Usekin sheds light on his family’s search for justice: mother Aicha, his brothers Mohammed and Ben Amar, and his sisters Sarah and Fatna. From their first reactions, when they heard about their little brother’s death, to their struggle to publicize the truth, to the tensions that sometimes interfere with their daily lives, we observe them as much as possible, like this is a real nightmare.

If the scriptwriters of the series were able to say with such precision this part of humanity for history, it is by meeting the main characters: Mohammed, Ben Amar and Sarah. Malik’s two brothers also attended Ousekin’s presentation at the Grand Rex on May 9th.

To bring this fascinating story to life, the series team was surrounded by brilliant actors who bet on the perfect balance between rising stars and acclaimed actors. In the first category, the revelation of Sayyid El Alami, who some acknowledge for his roles in the Messiah and Une si longue nuit, portrays the young Malik Ousekin.

Around him is attracted Hiam Abbas (Heritage), so moving as a deceased mother, Tevfik Jalab (Gears) in the clothes of Muhammad, who became the protector of the family after the death of his father, and Malek Lamraoui (Le Bureau des Légendes). ) In the skin of Ben Amar. Mouna Soualem (You Deserve Love) moves with her power in the role of Sarah, while Naidra Ayad (Para // èles) embodies the cautious Fatna.

In other prominent appearances on screen, Cad Merad interprets lawyer Georges Kiejmann, close to François Mitterrand, Olivier Gourmand gives his qualities to Robert Pandraud, the security minister’s envoy, and Thierry Godard is one of the accused sergeants, Sergeant.

A hit on the radio by Daniel Balavone, a portrait of François Mitterrand hanging in the cabinet of Minister Robert Pandraud, a face that could not be more retro … There is no doubt that the series is set in the 80s and we can only welcome it. A sense of costume, hairstyle and set details by the teams.

But that does not stop there, as Usekin tells his story in France at the time: Student demonstrations against Devaquet’s bill, which was aimed at sampling at the entrance to the universities, followed by a white march, the Mitterrand tragedy. Re-election in 1988 … The series also allows us to understand how relevant its theme is!

Behind this real success lies director and screenwriter Antoine Chevrolet, to whom we owe several episodes of Baron Noir, and Office of Legends. Here he puts all his talents into the service of Malik’s history, about which he first heard thanks to the work. The state kills Rap band Assassin.

To write the script, the creator of the series worked with Cedric Ido (La Vie de Château), Faiza Gwen (SOL) and Julien Lilt (Hippocrates, Germinal), who was supported by actress and director Lina Soulem in her research work. Together they were able to tell honestly and accurately this painful drama in four episodes of the Oussekine mini-series already available on Disney +.