1958: Those Who Said No

1958: Those Who Said No

Released on
Documentary, TV Movie, History
Runtime
55 mins
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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.

Cast

  • 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
  • Yves Montand
  • Jacques Duclos
  • Paul Reynaud
  • Waldeck Rochet

Director

  • Philippe Saada

Producers

  • Olivier de Bannes

Screenwriter

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