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Antonin Baudry & Simon Abkarian Talk French Box Office Hit ‘De Gaulle’: “The National Icon Did Not Exist In 1940”

Charles de Gaulle is arguably one of the most iconic figures in French history but for filmmaker Antonin Baudry, the story of how the wartime leader came to embody the French Resistance during World War II had largely been overlooked by filmmakers.

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With De Gaulle: Resistance and Liberty, an ambitious two-part historical epic, Baudry looked […].

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