Camarades

May 1968. France is in the throes of a student-led uprising that has the government on edge. To neutralize this subversive tide, the Gaullist administration strikes back with a move as cynical as it is brilliant: founding an experimental university safely tucked away from the cobblestones of Paris. Blending larger-than-life icons of “French Theory” with a cast of fictional dreamers, Camarades captures the heyday of an era where ideas were weapons and utopia felt within reach. This lively comedy invites us to relive the wild, chaotic experiment of Vincennes University, a place where the student experience was anything but academic.

Our take

With Camarades, Benjamin Charbit (Under Control, Zorro) and Dominique Baumard (The Bureau) deliver a ‘Nouvelle vague’ comedy as clever as it is electric, resurrecting the unique experiment of Vincennes University, a sort of Woodstock-on-the-Seine driven by infectious energy. Amidst infiltrations, power struggles, and bubbling ideas, the series transforms the aftermath of May ’68 into a playground where thought becomes a true weapon.

A serie produced by Muriel Meynard, Marc Bordure, Benjamin Charbit