While Emmanuel Macron announced the abolition of the National School of Administration, France 2 broadcasts Monday evening the documentary "The Enarque is a human (almost) like the others".
Its director Virginie Linhart explains in "Culture Médias" how she followed one of the last promotions of enarques.
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It is a documentary from France 2 on the ENA, the shooting of which ended after the announcement of the abolition of the National School of Administration.
The film
The Enarque is a human (almost) like the others
wanted to see, on the ground, if the criticisms regularly addressed to this school were correct or not.
To answer it, its director Virginie Linhart followed for a year and a half some of the students, those of the Hannah-Arendt promotion.
"There is this image of people completely above ground, disconnected from reality and who come from very, very privileged backgrounds," she recalls, Monday on Europe 1.
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A disconnection after the ENA?
“But all this is still largely undermined when we follow this promotion for a year and a half,” said Virginie Linhart.
"The students come from different backgrounds, they ask themselves questions differently, and above all their training is still extremely practical, with a lot of internships. The hypothesis I make is that the disconnection from reality does not happen. at the ENA, but maybe later. "
Especially when some take up a political career.
But few, very few have done so: around 200 students, out of the 6,500 trained by ENA since 1945. This documentary shows moments never before filmed: the first steps in school, the integration seminar , and the allocation of posts according to the school leaving classification.
The deletion announcement captured live
Moments that future senior officials will no longer live: the ENA will be abolished.
And his announcement, suddenly, was made by Emmanuel Macron during filming.
"Everyone was completely amazed, because all the students were abroad, in embassies, in the European Union or in large international organizations, at the time of the announcement," recalls the director.
"And then there was the Covid-19. A student told me I was filming Atlantis. There is that."
The documentary by Virginie Linhart
The Enarque is a human (almost) like the others
is to be discovered Monday evening at 11:15 pm, in the "Infrared" box of France 2.