Thomas Lilti: "I wanted to tell the story of the hospital in difficulty"

The director of

First Year

, former doctor, continues to examine the ailments of the hospital and the dedication of the caregivers in the second season of his astonishing series

Hippocrates

.

Broadcast from today on Canal + and MyCanal, these eight cutting-edge episodes of humanity follow the path of four interns.

They herald the disaster to come.

LE FIGARO.

- What was your breadcrumb trail for this new season?

Thomas LILTI.

-

For the first season of

Hippocrates

, I wanted to avoid the temptation of the spectacular.

It was about telling the daily life of a classic service, that of internal medicine, through four interns that an incident leaves alone in control.

In the end, one of them, Chloé (Louise Bourgoin), who suffered from a vascular pathology, had to be resuscitated.

This scene made me want to film emergencies and to tell through them the hospital in difficulty: the pressure of care, the discomfort that this can release in caregivers.

The emergencies,

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