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Manifesto of the 121 (2011)

Name: Manifesto of the 121
Director: Medhi Lallaoui
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-01-01
Duration: 52 min
Rating: 10.0
Cast: Bernard Langlois, Siné, François Maspero, Jacques Vergès, Maurice Nadeau

IMDb 10.00h 52mDocumentary

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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…