The Conquest
- Release Date
- May 18, 2011
- Director
- Xavier Durringer
- Cast
- Denis Podalydès , Florence Pernel , Bernard Le Coq , Michèle Moretti , Samuel Labarthe , Emmanuel Noblet
- Runtime
- 105
- Main Genre
- Biography
- Writers
- Xavier Durringer , Patrick Rotman
- Tagline
- The man behind the woman behind the man.
Summary
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.
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The Conquest Trailer
Director Xavier Durringer exposes the campaign practices of French president Nicolas Sarkozy in this upcoming political drama.