1958: Those Who Said No
1958, ceux qui ont dit non
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.
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Jean-Louis Debré
as Self
Yves Montand
as Self (archive footage)
Jacques Duclos
as Self (archive footage)
Paul Reynaud
as Self (archive footage)
Waldeck Rochet
as Self (archive footage)
Jacques Massu
as Self (archive footage)
Jean-François Sirinelli
as Self
Charles Hernu
as Self (archive footage)
François Mitterrand
as Self (archive footage)
Antoine Pinay
as Self (archive footage)
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
as Self (archive footage)
Claude Bourdet
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Pflimlin
as Self (archive footage)
Charles de Gaulle
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Mendès France
as Self (archive footage)
Édouard Daladier
as Self (archive footage)
Anicet Le Pors
as Self
Michel Debré
as Self (archive footage)
Fernandel
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Joxe
as Self
Guy Mollet
as Self (archive footage)
René Coty
as Self (archive footage)
André Malraux
as Self (archive footage)