In Clichy, in the Paris region, the RPR is determined to take over a canton that has always been socialist, at any cost, in order to steal the mayor's office in the next municipal elections. We follow militants and leaders in their conquest, discover their weapons and words, their strategies and their doubts.
Direction
Otzenberger's unflinching access to backroom deals.
Editing
Cuts between promises and reality hit hard.
Production
Captures 90s French political culture in amber.
Director
Christophe Otzenberger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The RPR (Rally for the Republic) was Jacques Chirac's party, and this documentary captures the machine politics that defined French conservatism before Sarkozy's makeover.
Otzenberger spent months embedded with both camps, and the socialists' complacency versus the RPR's ruthless hunger tells you everything about who won French politics in the long run.
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