On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic born in the throes of the Algerian War and one which—from the day it was founded by General de Gaulle until the presidency of a very Jupiterian Emmanuel Macron—has been assailed as a “Republican monarchy” by partisans of a more assertive parliamentarian state. By revisiting the struggle of those who dared oppose the new regime — only to suffer a crushing defeat on September 28, 1958, when they were barely able to garner 20% of the vote against the constitutional text — this film shines a powerful new light on the origins of the Fifth Republic and its consequences for the next 60 years. It is a constitutional debate that planted the seeds for a complete upheaval of the French political landscape, on the left in particular, and set the country in motion toward what would be called the Union of the Left.
La historia de Hans-Thilo Schmidt, ingeniero berlinés que, en la sombra, contribuyó a ganar la guerra de los servicios de inteligencia contra Hitler y a alterar el curso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, al revelar a Francia los secretos de Enigma, la máquina que hace indescifrables los mensajes alemanes. Asche, nombre con el que es conocido por los franceses, se afilia al partido nazi y desde su puesto de funcionario comienza a pasar información sobre el rearme secreto de Alemania y el calendario de las futuras invasiones.
