François Hollande, François Bayrou, Christiane Taubira, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Arlette Laguiller, Jean-Marie Le Pen... reveal the driving forces behind their strategies, recount their joys and doubts, and talk about the exhilaration of popular jubilation and the harshness of an exhausting marathon—the adrenaline, the staging, the blows that are dealt and received, the hopes of victory and, in the end, more often than not, defeat. Through the testimonies of eighteen former candidates, "big" and "small," who participated in the Elysée competition between 1969 and 2012, this documentary directed by Jean-Baptiste Péretié reveals the human and political comedy of the presidential elections, the great theater of the conquest of power.
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François Bayrou
Self
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Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
Self
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Jean-Baptiste Péretié
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Un vrai faussaire
Olivier Besancenot
Self
Ludovic Vigogne
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Self
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VGE, le théâtre du pouvoir
Christine Boutin
Self
François Hollande
Self
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Revealing Ukraine
Solférino
Marie-George Buffet
Self
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2005 : Quand les Français ont dit non à l'Europe
Robert Hue
Self
Eva Joly
Self
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Self
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Jean-Baptiste Péretié Director · Ludovic Vigogne Writer
First release April 5, 2017 · Produced in France · Production Canal+, StudioCanal
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France · April 5, 2017
TV · Canal+
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