Release Date

28 Sep, 2018

Runtime

00:14: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Maurice Audin, une histoire de mathématiciens

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Actors

Maurice Audin

Josette Audin

Michèle Audin

Pierre Audin

Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Pierre Braun

Gérard Tronel

Michel Broué

Pierre Mansat

Benjamin Stora

Emmanuel Macron

Léonid Pliouchtch

François Hollande

Cédric Villani

Sylvie Thénault

Crew

François Demerliac

François Demerliac

Alain Labouze

Ghislaine Mouton

François Demerliac