LCP: a documentary tells the 24 hours before the election of François Mitterrand

INTERVIEW

The parliamentary channel devotes its Monday evening to the story of a particular day: May 10, 1981, the day of the election of François Mitterrand to the presidency of the Republic.

But the film

is not just about the announcement of the results and the jubilation that followed.

He is also and especially interested in the preceding hours.

"We wanted to treat the big story by the small", explains in

 Emmanuel Ostian, the director of the documentary.

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"We feel that there is a form of amateurism, in the noble sense of the term"

"That is to say that one does not try to make a peplum on Mitterrandie and on the ideas which made it possible to make the switch. But one tells the story chronologically, of the morning when François Mitterrand leaves to vote in Château-Chinon, until the moment he returns to Paris the following night, "he says.

"We are telling almost minute by minute what happened on that day which, 40 years later, seems surreal."

"We feel that there is a form of amateurism, in the noble sense of the term, with much smaller teams, with poll forecasts which are undoubtedly not as fine as today", continues Emmanuel Ostian. .

"This may be one of the last elections in which there is real suspense."

"This is the time before political disenchantment"

A suspense that left François Mitterrand unmoved, even when he learned that he was elected, around 6.30 p.m.

He resumes the conversation he had, as if nothing had happened, to the surprise of his interlocutors.

One scene, among others, which bears witness to the man and the time, far removed from the one we are experiencing today.

"It was the time before political disenchantment," said Emmanuel Ostian. "All our interlocutors show it: we see a spark that lights up in their eyes every time they talk about that time. It is the time of a policy that was deeply lived. When we see today ' The level of mobilization and the negative nature of the political debate are a real contrast. The policy was serious and vibrant. " It is this "serious and vibrant" policy of before that shows the documentary

, diffused Monday evening at 8:30 pm on LCP.