1958: Those Who Said No

1958: Those Who Said No (2018)

On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic born in the throes of the Algerian War and one which—from the day it was founded by General de Gaulle until the presidency of a very Jupiterian Emmanuel Macron—has been assailed as a “Republican monarchy” by partisans of a more assertive parliamentarian state. By revisiting the struggle of those who dared oppose the new regime — only to suffer a crushing defeat on September 28, 1958, when they were barely able to garner 20% of the vote against the constitutional text — this film shines a powerful new light on the origins of the Fifth Republic and its consequences for the next 60 years. It is a constitutional debate that planted the seeds for a complete upheaval of the French political landscape, on the left in particular, and set the country in motion toward what would be called the Union of the Left.

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  • Release Date: 2018-10-06
  • Runtime: 0h 55min
  • Director: Philippe Saada

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Cast

  • Philippe Saada

    Narrator (voice)

  • Pierre Pflimlin

    Self (archive footage)

  • Raoul Salan

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jacques Massu

    Self (archive footage)

  • Pierre Joxe

    Self

  • Jean-François Sirinelli

    Self

  • Charles de Gaulle

    Self (archive footage)

  • Pierre Mendès France

    Self (archive footage)

  • Charles Hernu

    Self (archive footage)

  • Édouard Daladier

    Self (archive footage)

  • Anicet Le Pors

    Self

  • François Mitterrand

    Self (archive footage)

  • Michel Debré

    Self (archive footage)

  • Antoine Pinay

    Self (archive footage)

  • Guy Mollet

    Self (archive footage)

  • André Malraux

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jean-Louis Debré

    Self

  • Félix Houphouët-Boigny

    Self (archive footage)

  • Claude Bourdet

    Self (archive footage)

  • René Coty

    Self (archive footage)

  • Fernandel

    Self (archive footage)

  • Yves Montand

    Self (archive footage)

  • Jacques Duclos

    Self (archive footage)

  • Paul Reynaud

    Self (archive footage)

  • Waldeck Rochet

    Self (archive footage)

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