Three episodes from the history of socialism: Babeuf, whose virulent discourse is a radical assessment of the bourgeois revolution of 1789 (Vincent Nordon episode); the legend of Napoleon I, or the formation of the state as it still dominates today (François Barat episode); and the carnage of the Paris Commune, which official history strives to repress and forget (Joël Farges episode). What does it mean to make a historical film today? It means illuminating the present in the light of the past, and therefore adopting the new modes of modern storytelling to challenge what dominates us, structures us, and oppresses us.
François Barat
Director, Writer
Joël Farges
Director, Writer
Vincent Nordon
Director, Writer
Sami Frey
Babeuf (segment "Babeuf")
Brigitte Fossey
Andrée Léo (segment "La semaine sanglante")
Julie Delpy
(segment "La semaine sanglante")
Rosine Cadoret
Innkeeper (segment "Premier empire")
Didier Bezace
Actor (segment "Premier empire")
Marc de Jonge
Allied commissioner (segment "Premier empire")
Philippe Collin
Napoléon (segment "Premier empire")
Georges Azenstarck
Photographer (segment "La semaine sanglante")
Anne Wiazemsky
Elisabeth Dimitrieff (segment "La semaine sanglante")
Chouans !58%
Diplomatie70%
Ararat61%
La Révolution française75%
Austerlitz66%
The Grey Zone66%
Les Croix de bois70%
Munich - The Edge of War69%
Panther62%
The World Will Tremble75%
Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan68%
Uprising65%
Waiting for Anya62%
Elle s'appelait Sarah72%
The Scarlet and the Black70%
The Monuments Men60%
La Bataille de Gaulle : L’âge de fer78%
Landru64%
The Boy in the Woods68%
Jacknife63%
