Simon Abkarian Endows the Uniform of the General
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The biggest French budget of the year, "La Bataille de Gaulle" unveils its first part in theaters this Wednesday. A crazy bet of the director Antonin Baudry, who wanted to dust the myth for the new generation. TF1info met him with actor Simon Abkarian during the presentation of the film in Cannes. - Antonin Baudry: "For De Gaulle, France is a Madonna who can neither be weak nor surrender!" (Culture, media and entertainment).
Finally a biopic about General de Gaulle! It is certainly partial but worthy of this name, with a careful casting and a narration at the height of the character. Released tomorrow. Exchanges of gaze between Simon Abkarian and the director Antonin Baudry on the filming (C) Pathé films. There is like a mystery between de Gaulle and cinema. The main protagonists of the Second World War have been the subject of since the past century of one, even se…
This Wednesday at the cinema, Simon Abkarian is General de Gaulle, in the first part of the biopic, without surprise, devoted to him by Antonin Baudry. ...
Born in France of Armenian descent, the actor, partly raised in Lebanon and familiar with exile and tragedies, lends his stature to General de Gaulle.
The first part of the diptych on General de Gaulle is a success, between "Quai d'Orsay" and "La Mort de Stalin".
In London, in 1940, de Gaulle, alone, carried at arms the flame of free France. The first part of a biopic, never hagiographic, dedicated to the future president, was shown out of competition at the Cannes 2026 festival.
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