Charles de Gaulle
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- DirectorLaurent HerbietStarsPierre VernierDidier BezaceFrédéric PierrotMay 1968. Charles de Gaulle is 77. His great career is behind him. Obsessed by France's prestige, he's looking with distance to the student demonstrations. An intimate portrait of the General through the tale of 68'events.
- StarsBernard FarcyDanièle LebrunDavid RyallThis film is a labor of love, delicious to watch and full of tenderness for General de Gaulle as a person. Made for TV, (two episodes 1 hour 3/4 each), it retraces some of the most salient events in the General's life, from the start of WW II up to his assuming power in 1959, events which are evoked through family conversations or meetings with his close companions, i.e. his supporters through his political career. There are also actual newsreels from these events. But the standpoint of the film is not primarily historical - a knowledge of the period's history being almost a prerequisite to fully understand the film's niceties -; the standpoint is mostly personal: an effort to recreate what it felt to live close to this great man. There are frequent flashbacks to de Gaulle's role during WW II, his dealings with Reynaud, Churchill, Roosevelt (and Gen. Giraud - his onetime American-backed rival). The second part of the film describes, no less interestingly, his life through the IVth Republic. Born in 1944, having lived in France through the post-war political turmoils and the Algerian "events", also most interested in the history of WW II, I have found this film very credible. The dialogues in French (or broken French in the case of Churchill), delivered by excellent actors, literally recreate the "look and feel" of those times. The film is such that the dialogues can be savoured primarily by fluent French speakers. I do not know of the version in English - which may nevertheless be of interest to those seeking a French viewpoint on de Gaulle's life. __ .
- DirectorFélix OlivierStarsMichel VuillermozClément RoussierChristian RodskaMontcornet near Laon: the colonel De Gaulle is fighting against the Germans; he needs the help of others battalions and of the air force to hit severely the German Army.He receives a negative answer.On the 7th of June De Gaulle is nominated under secretary of state of War and National defense and on the 9th of June De Gaulle is sent to London where he meets Winston Churchill at Downing Street.Return to France where De Gaulle meets the Prime Minister Reynaud, the Marshal Pétain and Weygand.De Gaulle wants to continue the fight against the Germains: Weygand and Pétain are thinking about an armistice.On 10th of June Paris is declared open city.The government moves to the region of Touraine: there are talks with Winston Churchill.Then the government moves to Bordeaux.De Gaulle invites Reynaud to leave France and to continue the fight from the United Kingdom.De Gaulle travels to London and is insisting in speaking to the French People telling them that the fight must continue !.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsJean-Paul BelmondoCharles BoyerLeslie CaronAugust 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and resistance groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However, Hitler wants the city destroyed if it looks like the Allies will take it.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsLino VenturaPaul MeurisseJean-Pierre CasselAn account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.