A president's vanity project that accidentally exposed the emptiness of power.
Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
Direction
Depardon's patient, unblinking observation
Editing
Giscard's own cuts vs. restored version
Director
Raymond Depardon
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Self
Charles Aznavour
Jacques Chirac
Philippe Clay
Alain Duhamel
Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing
Valérie-Anne Giscard d'Estaing
Jean Lecanuet
François Mitterrand
Dani
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