Target : President De Gaulle

Ils voulaient tuer de Gaulle

TV MOVIE 96'
Docufiction/Docudrama

The true story of the notorious plot to assassinate President Charles De Gaulle
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Directed by

Jean-Teddy Philippe

Starring

Jean-Pierre Michael
Fred Bianconi
Pierre-Arnaud Juin
Valérie Decobert
Hervé Briaux
André Dussolier (Bad Seeds, Roomates Wanted, Diplomacy, Beauty and the Beast, My Worst Nightmare, Micmacs, Tell No One, 36, A Very Long Engagement, Officer s Ward - Best Supporting Actor at the Cesar Awards 2002, Children of the Marshlands)

Production

Capa Drama

2005 / Original language: French / Color / 1.77 / Stereo

Driving through the southern Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart in August 1962, the motorcade of President Charles de Gaulle suddenly became the target of gunfire and explosives. Against all odds, De Gaulle came out unscathed... A conspirancy mounted just weeks after De Gaulle proclaimed Algerian Independance, the infamous "Petit Clamart Ambush" involved some 20 men and women from different horizons and was masterminded by a brillant renegade lieutenant-colonel, jean-Baptiste Bastien-Thiry, with all the care of a full military offensive.