Overview
On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic born in the throes of the Algerian War and one which—from the day it was founded by General de Gaulle until the presidency of a very Jupiterian Emmanuel Macron—has been assailed as a “Republican monarchy” by partisans of a more assertive parliamentarian state. By revisiting the struggle of those who dared oppose the new regime — only to suffer a crushing defeat on September 28, 1958, when they were barely able to garner 20% of the vote against the constitutional text — this film shines a powerful new light on the origins of the Fifth Republic and its consequences for the next 60 years. It is a constitutional debate that planted the seeds for a complete upheaval of the French political landscape, on the left in particular, and set the country in motion toward what would be called the Union of the Left.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 6, 2018
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- O2B Films,Public Sénat,Toute L'Histoire
- Cast
- Jacques Duclos,Jean-François Sirinelli,Yves Montand,Félix Houphouët-Boigny,Fernandel,Raoul Salan,André Malraux,René Coty,Jacques Massu,Antoine Pinayand 15 more
- Director
- Philippe Saada
- Writer
- Philippe Saada
- Producer
- Olivier de Bannes
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- View on IMDb