New Sarkozy Film Charts Divorce and Rise to Power

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is no stranger to drama. But now the details of his personal life are set to hit the big screens in a new film documenting his rise to power five years before he was elected in 2007.

Cunningly dubbed La Conquete (The Conquest), the film sheds new light on one of the biggest dramas in recent French politics: the desertion of the President by his First Lady just after he won the election. He is then shown spending his first day as president searching in vain for the wife he married in 1996, Cecilia Sarkozy, a former top model and mother of his youngest son Louis, 13. They divorced a year later. Sarkozy then met his current wife, former supermodel Carla Bruni.

French President Nicholas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy

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