THE VANISHED PRESIDENT
Category: Long Feature
Production year: 2021
Country: France
Genre(s): Biography
Director(s): Jean-Marc Peyreffite
Cast: Jacques Gamblin, André Dussollier
Production company: Dibona Films | Pan-Européenne
French Distributor: Orange Studio | Tandem Films
International sales: Orange Studio | Tandem Films
Video edition: Orange Studio | Tandem Films
TV/SVOD sales: Orange Studio | Tandem Films
Synopsis
1920. Against all odds, Paul Deschanel, an idealist unknown to the general public, is elected President of the French Republic. His first steps in power are impressive. He makes a series of audacious proposals : abolition of the death penalty, the right to vote for women, universal suffrage! But the cynicism of the political world, the game of institutions and the violence of media campaigns catch up with him and soon derail him. One evening, he falls off a train and vanishes… The whole world wonders: what happened to the French President?