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Manifesto of the 121

Manifesto of the 121 (2011)

0h 52m | PG-13

⭐ 10 / 10

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…

Director: Medhi Lallaoui

Studio: Mémoires Vives productions

Genre: Documentary

Video: 720p

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Cast

Bernard Langlois

Bernard Langlois

as Narrator

Siné

Siné

as Self

François Maspero

François Maspero

as Self

Jacques Vergès

Jacques Vergès

as Self

Maurice Nadeau

Maurice Nadeau

as Self

Simone Signoret

Simone Signoret

as Self (archive footage)