Kabul: Is the series based on a real story?

This Monday, March 31, France 2 broadcasts one of the most ambitious products of the year, Kabul. Made with the European Alliance, the series is both spectacular and huge. Created by Olivier Demangel and Thomas Finkelkrout, he follows the steps of the Afghan family after the fall of the city.

But then, is this a true story? The answer is yes! Thus, the conspiracy is inspired by the results of the withdrawal of American troops announced by Joe Biden in August 2021. As the two authors explained, they immediately began to start after they started fiction, which you will find this Monday:

“We have taken the topic since September 2021. We were still surprised and did long documentation work. Then, we had a common intuition with Olivier that we should use a real Afghanistan in terms of these events. “

Olivier Demangel then continues: “There is a Western view in the series, but the heart of beating the series must have been Afghans. They are those who live in this tragedy.

Then, how should such a recent subject fit? “Because this is a historical event that took place in today’s world, there have been many documentaries.”

“We’re in the air on social networks. So we had lots of pictures immediately. We had watered and had a chance to have excellent consultants. There were also books that came out very fast. So we had a wide range of documentation in our order.”

In the end, the material was very dense as Olivier Demangel shows: “It was more difficult to sort information than to try to try to figure out because it is a difficult geography of Afghanistan and Afghanistan is a country that has a very difficult story.

“Everything is right and nothing is true”

He continues to: “Everything is inspired by real facts, so everything is right and nothing is true. We do not make documentaries, so we do not write documentary fantasy. We made a dramatic choice that was often an instinctive choice. However, the whole chronological course is almost true. “

At the same time, they have to make supplements: “However, we are forced to move things to make it strong, because the series follows the characters that create emotion. We try our best to keep the characters, bring them to the strongest emotional points to make the tragedy feel what they live, whether Afghans or the Westerners. “

“We can’t tell you anything”

Of course, the most difficult part was to capture the most difficult things: “By nature, it is a choral series based on quite severe real events, so it has imposed a great deal of humility. I can’t tell you anything. “

Olivier Demangel and Thomas Finkelkrout also made the choice not to show the screen pictures of Afghans who were trying to leave the planes for escape: “We have found this ethically a little limited to tell you this and we haven’t found the added value because these are the pictures that everyone has seen and we are by our side. We wanted to tell you something different.”

Don’t miss a series Bud It is already available on French TV and broadcasting this Monday, March 31, from 9:10 pm. In France 2.