The Conquest

Divided between the personal and political path of the sitting President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Xavier Durringer’s film tells his story starting from 2002, when the then-president of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, refuses to appoint him prime minister. Huge fights, backstabs, frenetic election campaigns and extramarital sins follow, in an entertaining political farce about the Machiavellian dwarf of politics, which constitutes the humorous French answer to “The Queen” by Stephen Frears.

La Conquete - Ο Κατακτητής by NyxtesPremieras

Original Title: La Conquête

Director: Xavier Durringer

Screenwriter: Patrick Rotman, Xavier Durringer

DoP: Gilles Porte

Music: Nicola Piovani

Editor: Catherine Schwartz

Principal Cast: Denis Podalydès, Florence Pernel Bernard Le Coq, Hippolyte Girardot

Country: France

Year: 2011

Running Time: 105'

Language: French