De Gaulle

Original title: Le grand Charles

TV Series
2006–
3h 30m

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Family conversations and meetings depict de Gaulle's life during WWII and the Fourth Republic, offering a personal perspective with vintage newsreels and re-enactments.Family conversations and meetings depict de Gaulle's life during WWII and the Fourth Republic, offering a personal perspective with vintage newsreels and re-enactments.Family conversations and meetings depict de Gaulle's life during WWII and the Fourth Republic, offering a personal perspective with vintage newsreels and re-enactments.

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Awards
- 3 wins & 2 nominations total

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Bernard Farcy

Charles de Gaulle

Danièle Lebrun

Yvonne de Gaulle

David Ryall

Winston Churchill

Grégoire Oestermann

André Malraux

Scali Delpeyrat

Jacques Baumel

Pierre-François Dumeniaud

Jacques Soustelle

Pascal Elso

Gaston Palewski

Hubert Saint-Macary

Michel Debré

Denis Podalydès

Claude Mauriac

Grégori Derangère

Claude Guy

Gérard Lartigau

Paul Reynaud

Marc Citti

Le jeune colonel résistant…

Jean-Michel Molé

Vincent Auriol

Bernard Alane

Paul Ramadier

Gilles David

André Philip

Stéphane Boucher

Maurice Thorez

Nicolas Briançon

Colonel Paul de Villelume…

Nicolas Vaude

Paul Baudoin…

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Soundtracks
Les Hirondelles
Music by Étienne Lorin
Lyrics by Bourvil
Performed by Bourvil

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10/10

De Gaulle behind the mirror - great historical accuracy

Behind the Great man that De Gaulle was, you have a man, with its own doubts, hopes and disillusion. If you have read De Gaulle's "Memories" or Pompidou "To establish a truth", you will find a great consistency between the movie and the real story.

Besides, alternating real archives footage of De Gaulle with sequences of the film provides an anchor with the historical events that so many films overlook(see for example the stupid film on Pompidou released in 2011 where he is portrayed as an incapacitated & diseased man).

You may be disappointed not to find the classic Hollywood romance and distortion of the real facts to make it "more romantic-like" as Georges Lucas quotes it. But this is neither a movie neither a fiction: it is History.

De Gaulle is also superbly interpreted by Bernard Farcy, whose performance is outstanding and quite surprising as he is far from his traditional repertoire.