Manifesto of the 121

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 Langlois Narrator Siné Self François Maspero Self Jacques Vergès Self Maurice Nadeau Self Simone Signoret Self (archive footage) Jean Daniel Self Jean Lacouture Self

Jean-Claude Silbermann Self

Hubert Damisch Self

Pierre Jaouën Self

Anne Guérin Self

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