De Gaulle: Liberté — Characters & Cast

To ensure that France is present at its own liberation, and therefore to guarantee it a place among the victors rather than the defeated.

Having survived exile and marginality in the first part, he moves from contested outsider to the recognised head of a fighting France — but the film tracks the cost: the isolation deepens even as the authority grows.

To bring French soldiers, under French command, into Paris — to make the liberation an act performed by the French themselves.

Given considerably more space than in the first film, he carries the action from the North African campaigns to the gates of the capital, his career becoming the concrete form of de Gaulle's abstraction.