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Bernard-Henri Lévy

French film director and philosopher · France · Directors · Born 1948 · age 77

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Bernard-Henri Georges Lévy is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" movement in 1976. His opinions, political activism, and publications have also been the subject of several controversies over the years.

A life in dates

2026Les derniers jours de Charles BaudelaireFilm, Writer2025Francine and Antoine Bernheim Award for Arts, Literature and ScienceAwardOur WarFilm, 2025Director, Writer2023Daniel Pearl AwardAwardOrder of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd classAward2022Le Figaro La NuitSeriesQuelle époque !Series, 2022Why Ukraine?Film, 2022Director2021Konuşmamız LazımSeries, Bernard-Henri LévyMilan Kundera: From the Joke to InsignificanceFilm, 20212019Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableauFilm2017The Battle of MosulFilm, Director2016QuotidienSeriesFranca: Chaos and CreationFilm, 20162014“I assert that Pakistan is the biggest rogue of all the rogue states of today.”In their wordsLévy, B.-H. (2014). Who Killed Daniel Pearl.

2012The Oath of TobrukFilm, Director, Writer2010Autopsie d'un MassacreFilm2008Q&ASeriesBenny Lévy, la révolution impossibleFilm, 20082006On n'est pas couchéSeries2004Ma mèreFilm, Producer2003Livre et droits humains awardAwardReal Time with Bill MaherSeries, 20032002“Today” PrizeAward2001Serbia, Year ZeroFilm1998Vivement dimancheSeries1994Bosnia!Film, Director, Writer1988Prix InteralliéAward1985Going and Coming BackFilm, Bernard-Henri Lévy1984Prix MédicisAward1975ApostrophesSeries1972Le Grand ÉchiquierSeries1948Born5 November 1948

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Photos 3

Bernard-Henri Lévy at Tel Aviv UniversityBernard-Henri Lévy at Tel Aviv UniversityLévy and Nicolas Sarkozy, at the commemoration of the Toulouse and Montauban shootings, 19 March 2015Lévy and Nicolas Sarkozy, at the commemoration of the Toulouse and Montauban shootings, 19 March 2015

In their own words 4

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Bernard-Henri Lévy
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4 statements, newest first

  1. I assert that Pakistan is the biggest rogue of all the rogue states of today.

    2014, Lévy, B.-H. (2014). Who Killed Daniel Pearl., Own words

  2. The world was rightly horrified by America’s recent blunder in bombing the Médecins sans Frontières’ hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

    West should not appease Russia, Own words

  3. Yes. We have, in France, a real tradition of what Jean Paul Sartre, in the foreword of a book of his friend Roger Stéphane, called l’aventurier.

    BHL in Dhaka, Own words

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Filmography 26

LFLes Glucksmann, une histoire de famille2026
LBLes derniers jours de Charles BaudelaireWriter2026
OWOur WarDirector, Writer2025
SUSlava UkrainiDirector2023
GHGlory to the HeroesDirector2023
WUWhy Ukraine?Director2022
MIMilan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance2021
TSThe Will to SeeDirector2021
PEPrincesse Europe2020
ATAlain Delon, l'ombre au tableau2019
TMThe Battle of MosulDirector2017
FCFranca: Chaos and Creation2016
PEPeshmergaDirector2016
SMStupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne2016
LDLe président et le dictateurBernard-Henri Lévy2015
LALes vendredis d'Apostrophes2015
TTThe Oath of TobrukDirector, Writer2012
AMAutopsie d'un Massacre2010
BIBenny Lévy, la révolution impossible2008
DEDemocrazyPatrick Hill2007
MMMa mèreProducer2004 · ★ 4.5
SZSerbia, Year Zero2001
DNDay and NightDirector, Writer1997
BOBosnia!Director, Writer1994
GBGoing and Coming BackBernard-Henri Lévy1985
JAJean-Paul Sartre - A 20 Year Absence?Bernard-Henri Lévy

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QÉQuelle époque !2022
LNLe Figaro La Nuit2022
KLKonuşmamız LazımBernard-Henri Lévy2021
QUQuotidien2016
QAQ&A2008
OCOn n'est pas couché2006
RMReal Time with Bill Maher2003
VDVivement dimanche1998
APApostrophes1975
LÉLe Grand Échiquier1972

Awards

Francine and Antoine Bernheim Award for Arts, Literature and Science2025
Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class2023
Daniel Pearl Award2023
Livre et droits humains award2003
“Today” Prize2002
Prix Interallié1988
Prix Médicis1984
Assistance to the Army (chest badge of Ukraine)

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Country
France
Category
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Type
Movie Director
Status
living
Dates
Born 1948 · age 77

In common with Bernard-Henri

Nicolas SarkozyAlso in Le président et le dictateur (2015)Isabelle HuppertAlso in Ma mère (2004)Claude LelouchAlso in Going and Coming Back (1985)Francisco RabalAlso in Day and Night (1997)Bernard KouchnerAlso in Le président et le dictateur (2015)

Directors from France 1

Jean-Luc Godard66.2

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