Desc: Accusé Mendès France: Directed by Laurent Heynemann. With Bruno Solo, Jacques Spiesser, Didier Bénureau, Jean-Claude Dauphin. A few months after the fall of France in 1940, lieutenant Pierre Mendès France is brought to the prison of Clermont-Ferrand. Arrested in Morocco for desertion by the new government forged and lead by Marshall Pétain, the former deputy prepares his defense with his lawyers, explaining why he left the country in June 1940 to North Africa on board the liner Massilia.