Bruno Solo and Yvan Le Bolloc’h very moved to find the Camera Café team (VIDEO)

In just three years of broadcasting, Cafe Camera has managed to establish itself as a cult series. Between 2001 and 2004, the series, which has no less than 570 three-minute episodes, won over millions of viewers on M6. The sitcom told the daily life of a provincial company and its employees, who found themselves – very, even too often – at the coffee machine. This flagship program of the 2000s was notably carried by the duo Bruno Solo and Yvan Le Bolloc’h, co-creators with Alain Kappauf. However, Cafe Camera stopped in 2004, then giving rise to a film and a spin-off, Café Camera 2: the box belowwhich was quickly canceled for lack of an audience.

The return of Cafe Camera with an unreleased film

Two decades later, Cafe Camera is back ! Indeed, M6 wanted to celebrate the anniversary of the series by offering a unique unit, shot in the first quarter of 2022 in Brussels (and which we reveal to you behind the scenes). On the occasion of the broadcast of this film on Tuesday January 24, Bruno Solo and Yvan Le Bolloc’h were Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine’s guests on the show C to you on France 5. They returned to the history of the series and spoke about this new moving shooting. “Finding the Camera Café sets so long after, was it as dizzying as it was moving?”, asked the presenter. “It was great”, immediately replied Yvan Le Bolloc’h. His sidekick then continued, “We had time to prepare, but it’s true, it was quite overwhelming when we saw the team arrive in Belgium. And when we saw it coming Alexandre Peslé, Armelle, Jeanne Savary, Valerie Decobert, Alain Bouziguesand all, one after the other, when they arrived in this setting that they were rediscovering, there was a really quite poignant moment“, he explained with still a hint of emotion.

“They had tears in their eyes”

Bruno Solo then recalled the emotion of his playmates after the filming of the first sketch of the film. “Besides, when we shot the first sketch, I think it was with Alexandre Pesle and Armelle, they had tears in their eyes, they had trouble getting over it”, he confided on the set. The presenter bounced back by asking Yvan Le Bolloc’h if he hadn’t been moved like the others. “Oh yes, absolutely! I was super moved, of course”, he confessed. “It’s still a program that brought us glory, serenity, a bit of sorrel, it must be said, and also comfort. Yes, this editorial freedom, that is to say, that we had from the beginning to the end of this adventure, the feeling of being free, like the one we had in the best hours of Canal+.” The essential duo of French television remembers with emotion the first hours of Cafe Camerabut is also delighted with this new project that they are about to unveil to viewers.