7.0

Sartre by Himself

Name: Sartre by Himself
Director: Alexandre Astruc
Released: 1976-10-26T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 191 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir

(Sartre par lui-même)

“The life of Jean-Paul Sartre, told by himself.”

19763h 11m

Overview

Michel Contat is Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS, ITEM/CNRS/ENS and a specialist of Jean-Paul Sartre whose novels and theater he has edited in the Pléiade edition and about whom he has written several books. With Alexander Astruc, he made the film Sartre par lui-même (1976) and, with Antoine Burnier, co-wrote the script of Claude Garretta’s TV film Sartre, L’Age des passions (2006). As a journalist, Contat contributed literary columns for Le Monde since 1978, and as an amateur musician, he was the jazz columnist for the magazine Télérama. His most recent books are Pour Sartre (2006) and André Gorz; vers la société libérée (2009).