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- 2003 (Accumulation)
- 2003 (Accumulation)
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The Law of Silence, a graduation documentary from La Fémis by Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier, Nadia Zibat, and Raoul Seigneur, explores the 1963 Amnesty Law and its consequences on research conducted about the Algerian War. It features interviews conducted in 2002 with Henri Alleg, director of the Alger Républicain newspaper from 1951 to 1955, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian and essayist. The film also includes striking statements from General Massu and lawyers who dismantle the legal defenses of figures like Jean-Marie Le Pen. Moïra not only gives voice to her father, René Vautier, but also reuses footage he shot forty years earlier. A very compelling documentary that reminds us, among other things, that amnesty is not forgiveness, but the erasure of both the sentence and the crime itself.
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French
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Llengua: Francés. Països: France
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images/ovni-2025/vautier/la-loi-du-silence.jpg
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- Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier (Accumulator)
- René Vautier (Accumulator)
- Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier (Subject)
- René Vautier (Subject)
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Latin