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L'affaire Salengro

2009
1h 48m
Drama
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Cast

Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (Roger Salengro)Daniel Mesguich (Léon Blum)Julie-Marie Parmentier (Amélie Deschamps)Jean-Claude Dreyfus (Henri Béraud)Christian Brendel (Marx Dormoy)Maxime Leroux (Henri Becquart)Alain Rimoux (Edouard Daladier)Laure Killing (Thérèse Blum)Philippe Magnan (Horace de Carbuccia)Jacques Chailleux (Ménard)Jean-Pierre Bagot (Ducloux)Isabelle Sadoyan (La mère de Salengro)François Morel (Henri)Françoise Pavy (Catherine)Agnès Gattegno (Sylvie)Benoît Solès (Pierre Gavotte)Jean-Pol Dubois (Léon Daudet)Bernard Bloch (Président Herriot)

Director

Yves Boisset

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Synopsis

July 1936. Leon Blum's (Daniel Mesguich) left-wing coalition government is facing one of the hardest strikes paralyzing the whole country's economy. But one man alone is about to get the French people back to work, and peacefully: Roger Salengro (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu).

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