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The day is May 6, 2007, France's run-up to the presidential elections.
As the French people are getting ready to go to the polls to elect their new president, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has shut himself away in his home. Though Sarkozy soon knows he has won the election, he is alone, gloomy and despondent. For hours he has been trying to reach his wife, Cécilia but to no avail.
The last five years unfurl before our eyes, recounting Sarkozy's unstoppable ascent, riddled with in-party backstabbing, media manipulation, riots, sarcastic confrontations and extra-marital affairs.
THE CONQUEST chronicles the volatile right-leaning Sarkozy's startling rise to become President of France and the emotional and psychological stakes involving the conquest of power. On the day the diminutive Sarkozy conquered his ultimate ambition, his wife, who for twenty years had struggled to pull the man she loved from the shadow into the light, walked out on him for another man.
Original Release
05/18/2011
US Release
11/11/2011
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Denis Podalydès | Nicolas Sarkozy |
Florence Pernel | Cécilia Sarkozy |
Bernard Le Coq | Jacques Chirac |
Michèle Moretti | Bernadette Chirac |
Samuel Labarthe | Dominique de Villepin |
Emmanuel Noblet | Bruno Le Maire |
Hippolyte Girardot | Claude Guéant |
Mathias Mlekuz | Franck Louvrier |
Gregory Fitoussi | Laurent Solly |
Pierre Cassignard | Frédéric Lefèbvre |
Directors
Writers
Xavier Durringer, Patrick Rotman
Cast
Name | Character |
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Denis Podalydès | Nicolas Sarkozy |
Florence Pernel | Cécilia Sarkozy |
Bernard Le Coq | Jacques Chirac |
Michèle Moretti | Bernadette Chirac |
Samuel Labarthe | Dominique de Villepin |
Emmanuel Noblet | Bruno Le Maire |
Hippolyte Girardot | Claude Guéant |
Mathias Mlekuz | Franck Louvrier |
Gregory Fitoussi | Laurent Solly |
Pierre Cassignard | Frédéric Lefèbvre |
Dominique Besnehard | Pierre Charon |
Michel Bompoil | Henri Guaino |
Saïda Jawad | Rachida Dati |
Gérard Chaillou | Jean-Louis Debré |
Nicolas Moreau | Pierre Giacometti |
Yann Babilée | Richard Attias |
Fabrice Cals | Michaël Darmon |
Laurent Olmedo | Philippe Ridet |
Bruno Lopez | Jean-François Achilli |
Jean-Pierre Léonardini | Bruno Jeudy |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Eric Altmayer | Producer |
Nicolas Altmayer | Producer |
Arthur Grec | Producer |