Maurice Audin, a story of mathematicians
28/09/2018
On September 13, 2018, President Emmanuel Macron visited Josette Audin at her home in Bagnolet to ask for her forgiveness, presenting her with a declaration acknowledging that her husband had died under torture at the hands of a "legally established system" implemented by the former French colonial power in Algeria. This acknowledgment, however belated, is a victory for Josette Audin and her family, but above all, it is a victory for human rights, achieved together by mathematicians and historians. This film retraces this shared commitment against torture and state abuses, first within the Audin Committee and then within the Committee of Mathematicians, which also intervened to support other mathematicians imprisoned and sometimes tortured around the world.
Movie Information
Maurice Audin
as Self (archive footages)
Josette Audin
as Self
Michèle Audin
as Self
Pierre Audin
as Self
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
as Self
Pierre Braun
as Self
Gérard Tronel
as Self
Michel Broué
as Self
Pierre Mansat
as Self
Benjamin Stora
as Self
Emmanuel Macron
as Self
Léonid Pliouchtch
as Self (archive footages)
François Hollande
as Self (archive footages)
Cédric Villani
as Self
Sylvie Thénault
as Self
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