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…
Bernard Langlois
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Siné
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François Maspero
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Jacques Vergès
as Self
Maurice Nadeau
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Simone Signoret
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Daniel
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Jean Lacouture
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Jean-Claude Silbermann
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Hubert Damisch
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Pierre Jaouën
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Anne Guérin
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