Manifesto of the 121
Movie
Geners : Documentary
Rate : imdb 10/10
Status : Released
Language : Français fr
Country : France
Release :2011-01-01
RunTime :52 mins
Story :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
Bernard LangloisNarrator
SinéSelf
François MasperoSelf
Jacques VergèsSelf
Maurice NadeauSelf
Simone SignoretSelf (archive footage)
Jean DanielSelf
Jean LacoutureSelf
Jean-Claude SilbermannSelf
Hubert DamischSelf
Pierre JaouënSelf
Anne GuérinSelf
Gilbert RougerSelf
Jean-Claude GayssotSelf