
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.
François Mitterrand

Clo, la cousine de Mitterrand

Gabriel Jeanet
Antoine Mauduit

Jean Védrine

Henri Frenay

Jean Roussel

Maurice Barrois
Bertie Albrecht

André Masson

Maréchal Pétain

Charles de Gaulle
Commissaire Pinot

Irène Dayan

Georges Dayan

Pelat

Jacques Favre

Danielle Gouze

Mme Gouze
Caillau

Paul Racine
Jean-Paul Martin

Un résistant
Simon Arbellot
Le chef milicien

Le policier à la gare
Un communiste

M. Antelme
Le père de François Mitterrand

Narrator (voice)

Colette
