The State Against Mandela and the Others's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
An inspired recycling of archive material (...) Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte have found an elegant way to reconstruct the Rivonia trial
Screen Daily
The real coup for The State Against? is access to the 256 hours of audio recordings from the trial (...) The people interviewed are sharp and witty
Variety
Stylized animation and a wealth of uncovered archival audio make this doc on the apartheid era's pivotal Rivonia Trial unexpectedly fresh
Indiewire
utilizes fresh techniques and technology to chronicle everything from the arrest to the indictment and eventual sentencing (...) Champeaux and Porte are refreshingly straightforward with the dialogue in their script, although they sometimes become infatuated with their own cleverness