De Gaulle, the Last King of France

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.

Documentary History TV Movie

Samuel Labarthe

(Narrator (voice))

Charles de Gaulle

(Self (archive footage))

André Malraux

(Self (archive footage))

Pierre Mendès France

(Self (archive footage))

François Mitterrand

(Self (archive footage))

René Coty

(Self (archive footage))

Georges Pompidou

(Self (archive footage))

Michel Debré

(Self (archive footage))

Alain Peyrefitte

(Self (archive footage))

Nikita Khrushchev

(Self (archive footage))

John F. Kennedy

(Self (archive footage))

Jacqueline Kennedy

(Self (archive footage))

Yvonne de Gaulle

(Self (archive footage))

Konrad Adenauer

(Self (archive footage))

Harold Macmillan

(Self (archive footage))

Lyndon B. Johnson

(Self (archive footage))

Mao Zedong

(Self (archive footage))

Robert Rocca

(Self (archive footage))

Pierre Tchernia

(Self (archive footage))

Jean Lecanuet

(Self (archive footage))

Roger Frey

(Self (archive footage))

Michel Droit

(Self (archive footage))

Norodom Sihanouk

(Self (archive footage))

Louis de Funès

(Self (archive footage))

Lino Ventura

(Self (archive footage))

Johnny Hallyday

(Self (archive footage))

Françoise Hardy

(Self (archive footage))

Jean Seberg

(Self (archive footage))

Jean-Paul Belmondo

(Self (archive footage))

Lucien Neuwirth

(Self (archive footage))

Christian Fouchet

(Self (archive footage))

Nicolae Ceaușescu

(Self (archive footage))

Pierre Messmer

(Self (archive footage))