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We think we know André Malraux, the much-honored government minister, who throughout his life carved out a legend behind which to conceal his mystery. Who was this elusive man, this adventurer, this brilliant, mythomaniacal sphinx? As tragic and romantic as his life was, the testimonies of his wife, Madeleine Malraux, and those closest to him help outline this feverish intellect who once prophesied: "The 21st century will be religious or will not be." Even if it is apocryphal, it is impossible to ignore this declaration written at a time when humanism seemed triumphant and Western man the master of the world. As early as his first books in the 20s, Malraux diagnosed "the crisis of meaning" of the Western World: "Since the Age of Enlightenment, Western man has challenged then rejected the religious message, science has shown the unfathomable complexity of creation and gradually we were gripped by the vertigo of nothingness." This biography seeks to illuminate both the man and his work. What is the rapport between the public man and the private person? What is the discrepancy between the work and its creator?

France - 2006 - 1 h 34 mn - HD - Colour and B&W

Director René-Jean Bouyer Writer René-Jean Bouyer Camera Jean-Louis Sonzogni Sound Arnaud Lavaleix Editing Laurence Rossi Music Jean Baudlot Narrator Edouard Baer

Production Tetra Media, 101, av. Victor Hugo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France Tél : +33 (0)1 5538 0101 Fax : +33 (0)1 5560 0027 E-mail : contact@tetramedia.fr with the  participation of France 3, France 5, Planète, Public Sénat, Télévision Suisse Romande / Radio Télévision Suisse, Radiotélévision belge de la communauté française

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