Français, si vous saviez

André Harris
1973-02-22


10
465 min

This almost 8 hour humongous 1973 documentary by two of the filmmakers who made The Sorrow and the Pity recounts fifty years of the history of France from the 1920s to 1972. It is particularly thorough in documenting the significance and rise to power of Charles De Gaulle. The film's most valuable contributions are its interviews with all sorts of people who lived through this period of history, from Marshall Petain's lawyer (Petain headed the Vichy government of occupied France) to resistance figures, and Frenchmen who fought on the side of the Nazis in Russia.

Cast

Name Character Team
Noël Favrelière Self Unowned
Mohamed Boudia Self Unowned
Paul Teitgen Self Unowned
Léopold Sédar Senghor Self Unowned
Jacques Duclos Self Unowned
Pierre Mendès France Self Unowned
Benoîte Groult Self Unowned
Colonel Argoud Self Unowned
Pierre-André Boutang Self Unowned
André Dewavrin Self Unowned
Jacques Isorni Self Unowned
Serge Ravanel Self Unowned
Jacques Soustelle Self Unowned
Pierre-Henri Teitgen Self Unowned