DISNEYLAND PARIS: THIRTY YEARS OF AN EVER-GREATER DREAM | M6 | Zone Interdite

Disneyland Paris, Europe’s foremost tourist destination, is celebrating its thirty years. Opening on April 12 1992, the theme park, a symbol of American culture, now generates 6% of France’s tourism revenues. A huge economic success, but now an unavoidable part of our popular culture. With over 375 million visitors, the park has witnessed generations of devoted fans pass through its gates. Gérald Vaux, the head chef, has to draw up the menus for sixty restaurants. Yves Ollier, scenographer and artistic director, is dreaming up new floats for an original show. Manon Hazebroucq, landscape gardener, has the task of planting 20,000 flowers in a single night. Dronisos, a company from Bordeaux, has to coordinate 200 drones in order to write a vast number 30 in the sky, recalling Mickey’s ears… An event borne by the park’s 16,000 employees: the Cast Members, as they are called at Disney. Some have created a real history with Disneyland Paris, sometimes even as a family. Morgane, 30, welcomes visitors to the Ratatouille attraction. Her younger sister, Mallory, trains new recruits. Their mother, Sandrine, works in reception while Patrick, the dad, works backstage. They will help us explore the biggest dressing room in Europe with its 200,000 costumes or the cafeteria where cowboys and zombies cross paths. It’s a universe that Antonin, 25, is hoping to enter. He will have to prove his ability to embody the Disney culture.

The park is currently looking for 1,000 new staff… in the catering sector alone. Disneyland Paris is France’s biggest employer on a single site. A real economic revolution for the Val d’Europe Agglomération (Seine-et-Marne). A stretch of countryside where schools, businesses, shopping malls, stations and housing have all shot up… In this documentary you will discover how Mickey builds entire towns. Zone Interdite transports you to Disneyland Paris to experience the 30th birthday of an ever-greater dream.