Maurice Audin, a story of mathematicians

The story

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.

Cast

M Maurice AudinSelf (archive footages) J Josette AudinSelf M Michèle AudinSelf P Pierre AudinSelf P Pierre Vidal-NaquetSelf P Pierre BraunSelf G Gérard TronelSelf M Michel BrouéSelf P Pierre MansatSelf B Benjamin StoraSelf E Emmanuel MacronSelf L Léonid PliouchtchSelf (archive footages)

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F François HollandeSelf (archive footages) C Cédric VillaniSelf S Sylvie ThénaultSelf