This almost 8 hour humongous 1973 documentary by two of the filmmakers who made The Sorrow and the Pity recounts fifty years of the history of France from the 1920s to 1972. It is particularly thorough in documenting the significance and rise to power of Charles De Gaulle. The film's most valuable contributions are its interviews with all sorts of people who lived through this period of history, from Marshall Petain's lawyer (Petain headed the Vichy government of occupied France) to resistance figures, and Frenchmen who fought on the side of the Nazis in Russia.
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Noël Favrelière, Mohamed Boudia, Paul Teitgen, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Jacques Duclos, Pierre Mendès France
Crew: Vincent Malle (Delegated Producer), Christian Ferry (Delegated Producer), Claude Nedjar (Delegated Producer), Raymond Adam (Sound Engineer), Louis Malle (Delegated Producer), Alain de Sedouy (Director)
Country: France
Language: Français
Studio: V.M. Productions, Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), C.D.G., Uranus Productions France
Runtime: 465 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Feb 22, 1973
IMDb: 1
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