Overview

• An einem Tag im September is streaming early on ZDF’s portal and airs at 20:15 on Arte on 12 September and on ZDF on 15 September.
• The 90‑minute drama reenacts the first meeting on 14 September 1958 at de Gaulle’s home in Colombey‑les‑Deux‑Églises, with Burghart Klaußner and Jean‑Yves Bartelt in the lead roles.
• Director Kai Wessel and screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer acknowledge filling gaps with dramatic devices, including an embellished cook, two invented young journalists, and an expanded role for Yvonne de Gaulle.
• Reviews praise the performances but note the film can imply reconciliation began in 1958, overlooking earlier steps such as the 1951 ECSC and the 1957 Rome Treaties that established the EEC.
• Coverage also stresses de Gaulle’s skepticism toward supranational bodies and recalls the 1963 friendship treaty’s controversy, including the Bundestag’s pro‑USA and NATO preamble that angered him.