Fondane Island

A motion picture about Benjamin Fondane - poet, scholar, human. Birth, family, studies, love, marriage, travels, cultural friendships, theatre, motion picture, war, concentration camp, death. It is but a manifesto against forgetting. Benjamin Fondane can be talked about in many ways. He was a poet, scholar, theater and film man. But above all a man "who looked like no other", "a troubled spirit", a modern Ulysses, a wanderer, a philosopher "without a beard" and "with gigolo cravats", a cynic, a histrion, a Don Quixote, a naive, "a noble man in a sinister age", an island of humanity in a raging ocean. FONDANE ISLAND aims to reconstruct this complex and contradictory portrait of a man who "had the consciousness of unhappiness", but who knew how to talk about his own existence with refined humor and irony.