June 1940. France is collapsing and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to surrender. Alone against all odds, this unknown general escapes to London to save what remains of a dream: freedom. Without an army, without support, without hope. But with a fierce conviction: France, his France, has not laid down its weapons.

Cast & Crew
Producers: Jérôme Seydoux, Ardavan Safaee, Axelle Boucai
Director: Antonin Baudry
Script: Antonin Baudry, Bérénice Vila, based on the book by Julian Jackson “A Certain idea of France”
Director of Photography: Pierre Cottereau
Production Design: Benoît Barouh
Music: Volker Bertelmann
Sound: Lucien Balibar, Pascal Villard, Cyril Holtz, Nicolas Cantin
Editing: Rehman Nizar Ali, Katie McQuerrey
Cast: Simon Abkarian, Simon Russell Beale, Benoît Magimel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Niels Schneider, Florian Lesieur, Anamaria Vartolomei
Production: Pathé Films

Antonin Baudry
Antonin Baudry started his career as a diplomat, working as advisor and speech-writer to foreign minister Dominique de Villepin during the Iraq crisis, an experience on which he based a best-selling graphic novel, Quai d’Orsay, published under the pseudonym Abel Lanzac. The book became a bestseller, acclaimed for its sharp political insight and satirical edge. He then served the French government as cultural counselor in New York and Madrid. In 2013, Bertrand Tavernier adapted Quai d’Orsay (The French Minister) on screen, based on Antonin Baudry’s screenplay, for which he received several awards including Best Screenplay at the San Sebastián FF. In 2019, Baudry made his directorial debut with The Wolf’s Call (Le Chant du Loup), a thriller praised for its tension, pacing, and suspense. The film follows a French nuclear submarine crew during a high-stakes international crisis. Expanding his artistic universe beyond cinema, Baudry has also staged large-scale musical spectacles. At La Seine Musicale, he directed La Nuit des Rois (2023), a bold opera-like staging of Schumann’s ballads blending medieval myth and contemporary visuals, and Beethoven Wars (2024), an immersive space-opera inspired by Beethoven’s music that fused classical performance with cutting-edge visual storytelling. With De Gaulle, his next two-part feature, Baudry draws on his experience in diplomacy, cinema, and stage․

Filmography
The Wolf’s Call (2019), De Gaulle: Résistance, 2026).