France Télévisions: Frédéric Pierrot in the modern adaptation of “La Peste”

The project was unveiled more than two years ago. The cameras will finally be able to shoot from April 17. At the maneuver, the director Antoine Garceau, who already signed last year a television version of “Elementary particles” inspired by Michel Houellebecq’s novel. He will tackle a monument of French literature: the adaptation in four episodes of “La Peste”.

If Albert Camus’ novel takes place in Oran in the 1940s, this modern version announced this Friday, March 17 by France Télévisions will take place in… 2029 in a society “barely” out of “the wave of Covid epidemics” and confronted to a plague “far more formidable”, announces a press release from the public audiovisual group.

Frédéric Pierrot, who played the shrink in the series “In therapy” on Arte, Hugo Becker (“Black Baron”, “I promise you”) or Sofia Essaïdi (“The Fighters”) will be part of the cast of this mini-series entrusted to Siècle Productions. “While we have learned to live with the seasonal variants of Covid, we discover in this southern city a new variant of the plague bacillus called YP2. For lack of treatment, the central government will decide, in order to spare the rest of the country, to cordon off the city and then to apply a mysterious Plan D to it, the monstrous springs of which we will gradually discover, ”says France Télévisions.

“ All platforms wanted to adapt “The work of Camus, which has benefited from a strong revival of interest with the pandemic, had underlined in 2020 Stéphane Sitbon-Gomez, the director of antennas and programs for public channels. “It is a boldness in which we believe, in the context that we are currently experiencing both the rise of radicalism on all sides” and the health crisis, he added.