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The Conquest

Music Box Films | Release Date: November 11, 2011

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. The Conquest chronicles the volatile right-leaning Sarkozy’s startling rise to become President of France and the emotional and psychological stakes involved in 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. (Music Box Films)

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Runtime:	105 min
Rating:	Not Rated
Official Site:	http://www.musicboxfilms.com/the-conquest
Production:	Canal+
Genres:	Biography
Country:	France
Language:	French

Director	Credit
Xavier Durringer	Director

Writer	Credit
Patrick Rotman	Writer
Xavier Durringer	Writer

Cast	Credit
Bernard Le Coq	Jacques Chirac
Denis Podalydès	Nicolas Sarkozy
Dominique Besnehard	Pierre Charon
Emmanuel Noblet	Bruno Le Maire
Florence Pernel	Cécilia Sarkozy
Gérard Chaillou	Jean-Louis Debré
Grégory Fitoussi	Laurent Solly
Hippolyte Girardot	Claude Guéant
Mathias Mlekuz	Franck Louvrier
Michel Bompoil	Henri Guaino
Michèle Moretti	Bernadette Chirac
Nicolas Moreau	Pierre Giacometti
Pierre Cassignard	Frédéric Lefèbvre
Saïda Jawad	Rachida Dati
Samuel Labarthe	Dominique De Villepin

Producer	Credit
Eric Altmeyer	Producer
Nicolas Altmeyer	Producer