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Ces mathématiciens qui firent plier le Kremlin (2025)
Directed by Mathieu Schwartz
Documentary, History
On January 15, 1972, Leonid Pliouchtch, a Ukrainian mathematician who was unknown at the time, was locked up in a Soviet psychiatric institution and accused of dissidence. His wife, Tatiana, fought for his defense and contacted a committee of French mathematicians to help him. Led by Laurent Schwartz, they launched a three-year campaign to secure his release and succeeded in getting the USSR to back down on the issue.
Cast
Michel Broué
Pierre Laurent
Pierre Juquin
Crew
- Director
- Mathieu Schwartz
- Writer
- Mathieu Schwartz
- Original Music Composer
- Clément Barbier, Valentin Marinelli
- Editor
- Marie Luquet-Courbon
- Producer
- Agnès Molia, Christie Molia
Details
- Release date
- 2025-02-10
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French, Russian
- Countries
- France
- Production
- TSVP, LCP - Assemblée nationale, PROCIREP, Angoa-Agicoa, Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris, CNC