Overview

• The film premiered in France on June 27, 2025, dramatizing the French embassy operation as Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.
• Roschdy Zem portrays Commandant Mohamed Bida, whose firsthand account anchored the screenplay and guided production choices.
• The narrative focuses on how embassy police welcomed, fed and protected roughly 2,834 Afghan refugees under constant threat.
• Director Martin Bourboulon chose a restrained, tension-driven style that emphasizes human emotion over spectacle.
• Key scenes depict high-stakes negotiations with Taliban officials to secure bus transfers for evacuees to Kabul’s airport.