In January 1865, two after Abraham Lincoln’s re-election, the Civil War raged on. The president, who wants to end the war and unite the country, also has a political will: to pass the Thirteenth Amendment which will abolish slavery. Against the advice of all those who advise him to quietly maintain his popularity as re-elected president, Lincoln decides to launch into this fight which constitutes a historical electroshock, against the backdrop of bloody battles between soldiers from the South and the North where the dead are count by hundreds of thousands and of Homeric parliamentary bargaining. All the means are good, including the distribution of prebends, even the big lies, when it comes to turning the undecided ones …
Lincoln was America’s most admired president. The passion of Steven Spielberg for the great politician dates back to childhood, during a visit to the famous Lincoln Memorial in Washington: “I must have been five years old when I saw the Lincoln Memorial for the first time, I was first scared by the size of the statue on this armchair, but as I approached I was more and more captivated by his face. I will never forget this moment, it prompted me to wonder about this man who was overhanging me, sitting in this chair, ”reveals the filmmaker. The film focuses on the last 4 months of the life of Abraham Lincoln, assassinated on April 14, 1865 by the southern actor John Wilkes Booth: “We told ourselves that our (…)
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