1958: Those Who Said No (2018)
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.
Release Date: 2018-10-06
Runtime: 55 minutes
Director: Philippe Saada
Top Cast
- Philippe Saada as Narrator (voice)
- Pierre Pflimlin as Self (archive footage)
- Raoul Salan as Self (archive footage)
- Jacques Massu as Self (archive footage)
- Pierre Joxe as Self
- Jean-François Sirinelli as Self
- Charles de Gaulle as Self (archive footage)
- Pierre Mendès France as Self (archive footage)
- Charles Hernu as Self (archive footage)
- Édouard Daladier as Self (archive footage)
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