Manifesto of the 121
Manifesto of the 121

Manifesto of the 121

2011-01-01 | 52 min

On September 5, 1960, the trial of about twenty French activists from the "Jeanson Network" began, supporters in the metropolis of the action of the Algerian FLN independence activists. But after a few days, the situation was reversed and the trial transformed into a political arena, it was the government, the army, their policy, it was the entire Algerian war whose trial began. Accused, witnesses, lawyers, overflowing a stunned court, transformed the courtroom into a tribune of the opposition. The trial coincided with the publication of the "Manifesto of the 121" on the right to insubordination, signed among others by Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Adamov, Simone de Beauvoir, André Breton, Marguerite Duras, Pierre Boulez, René Dumont, François Chatelet…

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Bernard Langlois

Bernard Langlois

Siné

Siné

François Maspero

François Maspero

Jacques Vergès

Jacques Vergès

Maurice Nadeau

Maurice Nadeau

Simone Signoret

Simone Signoret

Jean Daniel

Jean Daniel

Jean Lacouture

Jean Lacouture

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