A traveller investigates the life and work of Georges Bataille. Through a staging of the writer's obsessive motives, the film succeeds in grasping the elusive: the sensitive nucleus of radical thought. The film contains the interviews with Pierre Klossowski and Jacques Pimpanneau.
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Cast
11 people
Jean-Claude Dauphin
Narrator (voice)
Known for
Don't Die Too Hard!
Choice of Arms
Bernard Rapp
Self - Host
André S. Labarthe
Known for
Vivre Sa Vie
Breathless
Éric Demarsan
Vincent Roget
Pierre Klossowski
Self
Known for
Au Hasard Balthazar
Danielle Anezin
Georges Bataille
Self - Archive recordings
Jacques Audrain
Jean-Claude Ducouret
Didier Vandewattyne
André S. Labarthe Director · Danielle Anezin Editor Didier Vandewattyne Editor
First release April 30, 1997 · Produced in France
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France
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · April 30, 1997
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No release date listed for United States.
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