Release Date

06 Oct, 2018

Runtime

00:55: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

1958, ceux qui ont dit non

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Actors

Philippe Saada

Pierre Pflimlin

Raoul Salan

Jacques Massu

Pierre Joxe

Jean-François Sirinelli

Charles de Gaulle

Pierre Mendès France

Charles Hernu

Édouard Daladier

Anicet Le Pors

François Mitterrand

Michel Debré

Antoine Pinay

Guy Mollet

André Malraux

Jean-Louis Debré

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Claude Bourdet

René Coty

Fernandel

Crew