About Hippocrate
Hippocrate is a French hospital drama created by physician-turned-filmmaker Thomas Lilti, expanding the world of his 2014 feature of the same name. Set in the internal-medicine ward of a large Paris teaching hospital, the series opens when a quarantine and a wave of staff absences strand the unit without its senior doctors. Four overwhelmed junior medics, who barely know one another, are suddenly left to run the ward alone, making life-and-death decisions far beyond their training.
At the heart of the show are the young doctors under pressure. Chloe Antovska is a determined fourth-year intern; Alyson Leveque is a nervous first-year still finding her footing; and Arben Bascha is a foreign-trained doctor working as a junior medic while his credentials are recognised in France. Thrown together on understaffed night shifts, they cover for one another, clash over judgment calls, and slowly forge the kind of bond that only the trenches of a hospital can produce.
Rather than chasing melodrama, Lilti grounds Hippocrate in the texture of real medicine, the exhaustion, the paperwork, the small triumphs and quiet losses, drawing on his own years as a doctor. The result is a humane, clear-eyed portrait of a French public hospital and of the resilient, fallible people who keep it running when the system strains. The series has run for three seasons on Canal+ and is widely regarded as one of the strongest French TV dramas of its era.
