La Bataille de Gaulle: L'Age de Fer
First of a two-part biopic. A powerful sweeping epic of Charles de Gaulle's journey during World War II, from his rise as a military leader to his emergence in French politics between 1940-1945.
The central dynamic is a relationship of mutual affection – not without its hiccups – between De Gaulle (Simon Abkarian) and Winston Churchill (Simon Russell Beale), making a case for Churchill having an affection and admiration for De Gaulle when most in his circle, including US President Franklin D Roosevelt (Campbell Scott), were much more cynical about this stubborn and less-than-endearing character. The cast is as sprawling as the story’s geography, which takes in France, UK, USA, Libya and several west African countries. It includes Benoît Magimel as Koenig, the grizzled general who valiantly held out against the Nazis at Bir Hakeim in 1942, and Mathieu Kassovitz as Darlan, the admiral in Marshal Pétain’s French government under Nazi occupation. (Subtitles)
France 2026 Antonin Baudry 140m
