Français si vous saviez (1973)

Film in three eras: "Passing through Lorraine" (2h30): The defeat of 40, unexpected for many, causes the total collapse of the country. But the conflict of 14-18, then the 1930s, prepared, in their own way, the debacle... "General here we are" (2:30 a.m.): The assessment after the victory and the choices available to France . A troubled and ambiguous era: the purge, the Pétain trial, Brasillach, Stalinism... "I understood you" (2:45 a.m.): The portrait of an admired and contested man, De Gaulle, facing the 3rd crisis that the French are experiencing: decolonization.