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Feature film — 2025

Ces mathématiciens qui firent plier le Kremlin (2025)

8.0Documentary — 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.

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TSVP / LCP - Assemblée nationale / PROCIREP / Angoa-Agicoa / Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris / CNC

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Director: Mathieu Schwartz

On screen

Cast & crew

Michel Broué as Self : Mathematician & Trotskist Activist

Michel Broué

Self : Mathematician & Trotskist Activist

Pierre Laurent as Self : Journalist

Pierre Laurent

Self : Journalist

Pierre Juquin as Self : Syndicalist

Pierre Juquin

Self : Syndicalist

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Mathieu Schwartz

Narrator (voice)

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