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Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Charles Berling in a historic face-off.<div> Sunday, March 15, 1981, 7 p.m. In his apartment on Rue de Bièvre, François Mitterrand is preparing for the television program "Cartes sur table" (Cards on the Table), his first major public appearance since announcing his presidential candidacy. The doorbell rings: it's Robert Badinter. He wasn't expected, but he knows that Mitterrand is about to gloss over the abolition of the death penalty, convinced it would cost him the election.</div><div><br></div><div> Badinter has 1 hour and 20 minutes to change his mind.</div>