Jean Lacouture and Patrick Rotman interview the witnesses of François Mitterrand's life. Their testimonies, which both complement and contradict each other, write the story of a life: the youth, the Vichy regime and the Resistance during the Second World War, the Fifth Republic and the Algerian war, the conquest of the Elysée, the backstage of power and the secrets of a president.

Genres

Cast

Jean-Louis Bianco

Self

Claude Estier

Self

François Mitterrand

Self (archive footage)

Jacques Delors

Self

Roland Dumas

Self

Laurent Fabius

Self

Élisabeth Guigou

Self

Marie de Hennezel

Self

Pierre Joxe

Self

Alain Juppé

Self

Jack Lang

Self

Mazarine Pingeot

Self