Manifesto of the 121 (2011)

  • NR
  • 01/01/2011 (FR)
  • Documentary
  • 52m

Overview

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…

Medhi Lallaoui

Director, Writer

Cast

Bernard Langlois's headshot

Bernard Langlois

Narrator
Siné's headshot

Siné

Self
François Maspero's headshot

François Maspero

Self
Jacques Vergès's headshot

Jacques Vergès

Self
Maurice Nadeau's headshot

Maurice Nadeau

Self
Simone Signoret's headshot

Simone Signoret

Self (archive footage)
Jean Daniel's headshot

Jean Daniel

Self
Jean Lacouture's headshot

Jean Lacouture

Self

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