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Thomas Lilti: "Becoming a doctor upset me"

2020-05-19T17:53:22.199Z


While filming the second season of the "Hippocrates" series, the filmmaker had to stop everything. Rather than confining himself with wife and children, he decided to put his gown on at the Robert-Ballanger hospital, in Seine-Saint-Denis, where he was filming. He tells of the caregivers' commitment and responsiveness as well as the state of the hospital, and hopes to resume his hospital fiction in mid-June.


Even today, when asked to Thomas Lilti, 43, what profession he practices, he replies: "Doctor." However, the general practitioner has not been practicing since 2013 and he has become a recognized filmmaker, transforming the reality of the hospital and medical world into remarkable fictions. In the cinema with a trilogy: Hippocrates , Country doctor and First year (3.5 million admissions combined). And on television with a series for Canal +: Hippocrates . In mid-March, the filming of the second season stopped short because of the Covid-19. Thomas Lilti then put on his blouse to help the emergencies of Robert-Ballanger hospital, in Aulnay-sous-Bois, in Seine-Saint-Denis. He returns to this experience.

LE FIGARO. - Season 1 of Hippocrates begins with the quarantine of doctors suspected of having been in contact with a virus during a trip. Premonitory?

Thomas LILTI. - I have sometimes been criticized for having forced the line to have a sales pitch. But I experienced this situation when

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