Manifesto of the 121
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View on VideBits →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…
Cast & crew
Jean Daniel · Bernard Langlois · Jacques Vergès · Medhi Lallaoui · Hubert Damisch · Jean Lacouture · Simone Signoret · Maurice Nadeau · Siné · Jean-Claude Silbermann · François Maspero