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…
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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
Gilbert Rouger
Self
Jean-Claude Gayssot
Self
