• Director(s):

    COLOMER (HENRY)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, ARTLINE FILMS, MUSEE D'ORSAY

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2002

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, DVD

An odyssey which allows us to chart the seas of Hugo's vast imagination and sends us hot-foot in search of the books, the moment the programme is over.

Few writers have created as many images as Victor Hugo in the course of their working lives - primarily through the medium of words, in his poems, his extravagant fictional sagas and the vast treasure-house of writings in which he records the details of his own and his contemporaries' lives, the time in which he lived and his appreciations of great men such as Shakespeare.
But all through his life, Hugo also drew and painted - producing gouaches, water-colours, line drawings, caricatures, sketches and decorative drawings, and calligraphy. Everything he set his hand to is illustrated - his notebooks, his books, his manuscripts - any blank sheet of paper was an irresistible invitation.
As with the rest of his productions, he was well aware that his numerous drawings and paintings were an integral part of his artistic output. And Henry Colomer is surely amongst the directors best qualified to present this mammoth self-portrait.