The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A convinced Pétainist, he will become a leading resistance fighter.
as François Mitterrand
as Clo, la cousine de Mitterrand
as Gabriel Jeanet
as Antoine Mauduit
as Jean Védrine
as Henri Frenay
as Jean Roussel
as Maurice Barrois
as Bertie Albrecht
as André Masson
as Maréchal Pétain
as Charles de Gaulle
as Commissaire Pinot
as Irène Dayan
as Georges Dayan
as Pelat
as Jacques Favre
as Danielle Gouze
as Mme Gouze
as Caillau
as Paul Racine
as Jean-Paul Martin
as Un résistant
as Simon Arbellot
as Le chef milicien
as Le policier à la gare
as Un communiste
as M. Antelme
as Le père de François Mitterrand
as Narrator (voice)
as Colette