In 2011, one man was the favorite for the socialist primary: Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The director general of the International Monetary Fund was to be the left's presidential candidate.
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But that will never be the case. In May 2011, an image from New York went around the world: that of DSK walking forward bent and handcuffed, with a haggard look, framed by police officers as he left the Harlem police station.

He is suspected of attempted robbery of a chambermaid at the Sofitel hotel where he had just stayed. The Americans know his face and the French, who have followed his political rise for years, discovered his fall live that day.

Thanks to the testimonies of those close to him, supported by exceptional archive images, the documentary aims to understand how this man, in whom some already saw the next President of the French Republic in 2012, arrived at this day in May 2011 which looks like a bad sequence from an American series.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always liked to flirt with danger, he who began his life as a survivor, a survivor of the February 1960 earthquake in Agadir, where he spent his childhood.

The fate of DSK is a real thriller, with many twists and turns. A destiny that smells of suffering. When we talk about him, it's about money and women. He is jealous, envied, and sometimes, often, becomes persona non grata within his own party. Until that day in May 2011. The only one he had not anticipated in the life he sees as a game of chess, the only one from which he may never recover.
00:00 DSK
09:02 The survivor
18:37 The ascension
33:57 The journalist and the politician
43:46 The star minister
59:20 Presidential ambition
01:04:28 On top of the world
01:16:45 The fall
01:30:27 One case too many

A film by SARAH BRIAND AND JEAN-BAPTISTE ARNAUD
A Magneto production