• Director(s):

    BOUTANG (Pierre-Andre)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, FILMS DU BOULOI

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2008

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, DVD, INTERNET

A superb self-portrait of the philosopher. In what way can reflecting on worlds very far from our own, either in space or time, bear relevance for us today? Is there a scientific légua - a before and after Lévi-Strauss - in anthropology?

This documentary retraces the intellectual path of the author of "Tristes tropiques" ("A World on the Wane") and "La Pensée sauvage" ("The Savage Mind"), Claude Lévi-Strauss. The anthropologist and founder of structural anthropology in France is portrayed via numerous selected extracts of interviews he has given since the 1960s. The film is a fascinating introduction into the mind of a man who is interested in all men. Lévi-Strauss has great confidence (in spite of a pessimistic view of our contemporary world) in the creative capacities of the human mind.