A documentary series on the behind the scenes of the 2024 Olympic Games produced by the Naudet brothers broadcast on France 2

The official 90-minute film will also be directed by the Naudet brothers and will be broadcast by France Télévisions in January 2025.

“We wanted to tell this big story with the little stories“: this is how the Naudet brothers summarize the approach of their documentary series on the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, the first two episodes of which will be unveiled on July 22 on France 2, they announced on Thursday July 4.

The concept ofAt the heart of the Games : filming before, during and after the sporting event with the aim of “show what we never see“, by putting the emphasis on the human, explained Jules Naudet at a press conference.

In a unique device, the documentary filmmakers Jules and Gédéon Naudet have been following, with three film crews, the behind the scenes preparations for the Olympic Games (July 26-August 11) and Paralympic Games (August 28-September 8) for more than three months with anonymous people.without whom the Games would not exist“, athletes and members of the organization, such as Tony Estanguet, president of the Olympic Organizing Committee and the common thread of the series.

Installation of the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower following the architect who is leading this mission, inauguration of the rainwater storage basin in Austerlitz with the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, torch relay with an anonymous person or even a briefing by Tony Estanguet to the first bearer, Florent Manaudou, who fears “to have a sore arm“…The first images revealed sequences that were sometimes amusing, emotional or spectacular.

Authors of documentaries devoted to the attacks of September 11, 2001 (New York: September 11) and November 13, 2015 (November 13 : Fluctuat NEC mergitur), the Naudet brothers told AFP: “fed up with disaster brothers“and launched this project on the Games three and a half years ago, this time no longer with the desire to film tragic events, but rather”the celebration of life“.

The first two episodes of the series will be broadcast in prime time. They will be followed, the same evening, by a documentary on the city of Paris’s bid to host the Olympic Games this summer, “closer to what they usually do, with archives, long interviews, twenty-five witnesses“, explained their producer Gaël Leiblang.

Episodes 3 and 4, scheduled for mid-September, will focus on the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The official 90-minute film will also be directed by the Naudet brothers and will be broadcast by France Télévisions in January 2025.