Antonin Baudry & Simon Abkarian Talk French Box Office Hit ‘De Gaulle’: “The National Icon Did Not Exist In 1940”
- A two-part film explores de Gaulle’s rise in 1940.
- The $84 million production has earned over $50 million in France.
- Its second part will have its US premiere in Los Angeles.
Director Antonin Baudry has made *De Gaulle: Resistance and Liberty*, a two-part historical epic about how the little-known general became a leader of the French Resistance after France surrendered to Nazi Germany in 1940. Its success in France and upcoming US premiere bring attention to a period Baudry…
