Overview
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…
Production
Mémoires Vives productions, CNC, France Télévisions
Cast
More Like This
Algeria in Flames
The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting
Raï Story: From Cheikha Rimitti to Cheba Djenet
How Much I Love You
CHoosing at Twenty
143 Sahara Street
The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
Color-Blind
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie