Cast
Hippolyte Girardot (Valéry Giscard d'Estaing)Grégori Derangère (Jacques Chirac)Géraldine Pailhas (Marie-France Garaud)Evelyne Buyle (Claude Pompidou)Eric Prat (Michel Poniatowski)Bruno Raffaelli (Alexandre Sanguinetti)Philippe Uchan (Charles Pasqua)Olivier Cruveiller (Pierre Juillet)Yvon Back (Michel d'Ornano)Estelle Skornik (Bernadette Chirac)Patrick Rocca (Olivier Guichard)Christian Cloarec (Pierre Messmer)Philippe Manesse (Georges Pompidou)Mario Hacquard (François Mitterrand)Marianne Bateman Novaes (Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing)Yves Lambrecht (Jacques Chaban-Delmas)Marie Piton (Édith Cresson)Éric Naggar (Jean de Lipkowski)
Director
Laurent Heynemann
Synopsis
Upon the sudden death of President Georges Pompidou, the French right is taken aback. Who will succeed him? It is finally Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, aged 48, elected with the support of Jacques Chirac, who is then appointed Prime Minister. Their alliance seems strong, but it will quickly crack.
