Abstract

A documentary film co-scripted and produced by the Director of the Lev Shestov Studies Society and Passager Productions to mark the existential philosopher's 150th anniversary. Several interviews with specialists from France, Canada, Switzerland and the UK accompany the biographical and critical interpretation of the author's interaction with French and German intellectuals during the 1920s and 1930s, as well as his influence on post-war European philosophers and writers. The film was launched during the retrospective exhibition organised at the Mairie du 6e, in Paris, between the 24th March and the 9th April 2016.