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Manifesto of the 121

10.0 52 mins Documentary   2011
Mémoires Vives productions   CNC   France Télévisions  
Director(s): Medhi Lallaoui

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…

Casts of Manifesto of the 121

Bernard Langlois

as Narrator

Siné

as Self

Jacques Vergès

as Self

Maurice Nadeau

as Self

Simone Signoret

as Self (archive footage)

Jean Daniel

as Self

Jean Lacouture

as Self

Hubert Damisch

as Self

Pierre Jaouën

as Self

Anne Guérin

as Self

Gilbert Rouger

as Self

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