On September 17, 1981, Minister of Justice Robert Badinter delivered an indictment against the death penalty at the podium of the National Assembly.
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He was going to make history by getting its abolition voted. After having been the lawyer of many defendants who faced the death penalty, he saw this as the culmination of many years of fighting. With the help of unpublished testimonies from his wife Élisabeth but also from his two sons, Simon and Benjamin, this portrait delves into an intense life, full of twists and turns, from his beginnings as a lawyer alongside movie stars to his anger during the commemoration of the Vél'd'Hiv roundup in 1992
A film by Alexis de la Fontaine
Based on an original idea by Laurent Delahousse
A Magnéto production
26 авг 2024