Some wars are won by armies. Others by those who refuse to surrender.
June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20267/10
Though it does leave it until the end, Antonin Baudry does put up a disclaimer acknowledging that there's a fair degree of cinematic licence been taken with this depiction of the rise of Charles de Gaulle from upstart provincial soldier to leader of the Free French during the Nazi occupation of his country. We start in 1940 with France effectively partitioned. The Vichy - under the government of Marshal Petain is in the South and it is trying keep what it can of it's territory from their invaders - at just about any price. De Gaulle (Simon Abkarian) has escaped to London and views them all as capitulators unworthy to claim any rights to the leadership of the French people, but his views have little traction at home or abroad. Meantime, British Prime Minister Churchill (Sir Simon Russell Beale) needs to stop the substantial French fleet from falling into enemy hands - but Admiral Darlan (Mathieu Kasovitz) seems unlikely to just hand it over to the British who are now the only power left in Europe resisting the Führer and his henchmen. Might de Gaulle be a weapon Churchill can employ? He's a formidable speaker after all. Well, he concludes that he hasn't actually got very much to los
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Cast
- Simon AbkarianCharles de Gaulle
- Simon Russell BealeWinston Churchill
- Florian LesieurFernand
- Benoît MagimelKoenig
- Mathieu KassovitzDarlan
- Loïc CorberyPleven
- Anamaria VartolomeiLivia
- Niels SchneiderGénéral Leclerc
- Félix KysylJean Moulin/Rex
- Karim LeklouBlazej
Crew
- Antonin BaudryDirector
- Antonin BaudryScreenplay
- Bérénice VilaScreenplay
- Pierre CottereauDirector of Photography
- Volker BertelmannOriginal Music Composer
- Axelle BoucaïProducer
- Jérôme SeydouxProducer
- Ardavan SafaeeProducer
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