
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
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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