Three episodes from the history of socialism: Babeuf, whose virulent discourse is a radical assessment of the bourgeois revolution of 1789 (Vincent Nordon episode); the legend of Napoleon I, or the formation of the state as it still dominates today (François Barat episode); and the carnage of the Paris Commune, which official history strives to repress and forget (Joël Farges episode). What does it mean to make a historical film today? It means illuminating the present in the light of the past, and therefore adopting the new modes of modern storytelling to challenge what dominates us, structures us, and oppresses us.

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Cast

Sami Frey

Babeuf (segment "Babeuf")

Brigitte Fossey

Andrée Léo (segment "La semaine sanglante")

Julie Delpy

(segment "La semaine sanglante")

Rosine Cadoret

Innkeeper (segment "Premier empire")

Didier Bezace

Actor (segment "Premier empire")

Marc de Jonge

Allied commissioner (segment "Premier empire")

Philippe Collin

Napoléon (segment "Premier empire")

Georges Azenstarck

Photographer (segment "La semaine sanglante")

Anne Wiazemsky

Elisabeth Dimitrieff (segment "La semaine sanglante")

Pierre Vial

Thiers (segment "La semaine sanglante")

Albert Delpy

(segment "La semaine sanglante")

Catherine Jourdan

(segment "Premier empire") (voice)