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3/27/2017
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.
Samuel Labarthe
as Narrator (voice)
Charles de Gaulle
as Self (archive footage)
André Malraux
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Mendès France
as Self (archive footage)
François Mitterrand
as Self (archive footage)
René Coty
as Self (archive footage)
Georges Pompidou
as Self (archive footage)
Michel Debré
as Self (archive footage)
Alain Peyrefitte
as Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
as Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
Jacqueline Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
Yvonne de Gaulle
as Self (archive footage)
Konrad Adenauer
as Self (archive footage)
Harold Macmillan
as Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
as Self (archive footage)
Mao Zedong
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Rocca
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Tchernia
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Lecanuet
as Self (archive footage)
Roger Frey
as Self (archive footage)
Michel Droit
as Self (archive footage)
Norodom Sihanouk
as Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès
as Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura
as Self (archive footage)
Johnny Hallyday
as Self (archive footage)
Françoise Hardy
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Seberg
as Self (archive footage)
Jean-Paul Belmondo
as Self (archive footage)
Lucien Neuwirth
as Self (archive footage)
Christian Fouchet
as Self (archive footage)
Nicolae Ceaușescu
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Messmer
as Self (archive footage)