Overview

• The two-part program airs at 21:10 on France 2, with episodes running 55 minutes each and presented as an inédit broadcast.
• Directed by Hugues Nancy and produced by Nilaya Productions, the project adapts Jérémie Foa’s microhistorical research that identified victims and killers across 25 inquiries.
• The narrative follows Jean Picquier, a fictional survivor played by Gaspard Meier, who returns a decade later with a cameraman to investigate what happened to his community.
• Coverage from Télérama praises the production’s formal inventiveness and compares its approach to Peter Watkins’ experimental historical reconstructions.
• Both the film and the reporting emphasize a reinterpretation of the events that challenges the long-held view of a spontaneous popular outburst, pointing instead to elements of premeditation.