Bernard-Henri Levy - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography (Read)

Bernard-Henri Levy - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Writer, Director, Actor, Producer.

Born November 5, 1948, Beni-Saf, France (Algeria) - French political journalist, philosopher, writer.

Bernard-Henri's father was the owner of a large timber company, La Becob. In 1954, the family moved to France in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. In 1968, Bernard-Henri entered the Higher Normal School.

He began his journalistic career working for the newspaper Combat. In 1971 he traveled to India, covering the war of independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan. Since 1973 - editor of the Grasset publishing house, which subsequently published his books. He has written over 20 books, mainly on topical political topics.

In 1974, he married the model Isabelle Doutreluigne, who bore him two children.

Levy is known as one of the founders of the New Philosophy school, a critic of modern Marxism (the book “Barbarism with a Human Face”, 1977).

In 1984, Levy helped found the SOS racisme, a public organization designed to attract black and Arab votes for the Socialist Party of France and its leader Francois Mitterrand. In 1986 he traveled to Ethiopia.

In the early 1990s, he covered the conflict in the former Yugoslavia in support of Bosnian Muslims. In 1991, he was appointed director of the state film commission (commission d'avances sur recettes), which distributes state subsidies for cinema.

In 1993 he married the actress Arielle Domball. In 1997 he directed the film Day and Night with his wife and Alain Delon in the lead roles.

In 1999, supported the Kosovo Liberation Army. in his articles called for the bombing of Yugoslavia.

Supported the war on terrorism in Afghanistan.

Levi is a fighter against Islamic fundamentalism. In 2005, together with Salman Rushdie, he issued a manifesto "Together Against New Totalitarianism," in which he criticized the cartoon scandal of 2005-2006 and attempts to spread the Islamic way of life in Europe.

During the war in South Ossetia in 2008, reported from Georgia, interviewed President Mikhail Saakashvili.

In 2008, the book "Enemies of the Society" was published - Levy's correspondence with the French writer Michel Houellebecq.

In May 2010, signed a petition by the JCall group to the European Parliament, calling, among other things, to put pressure on Israel. The petition caused contradictory responses in Israel and in the world in general.

In March 2011, he participated in negotiations with Libyan rebels in Benghazi and publicly promoted the international recognition of the newly created National Transitional Council. Later that month, he, along with Nicolas Sarkozy, promoted an initiative for military intervention in Libya.

In March 2013, Levi Bernard-Henri, positioning himself as a fighter against radical Islamism and the mastermind of Libya's liberation from the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, was banned from entering liberated Libya under the pretext that he is a Jew and his stay in this country is unsafe due to the strengthening positions there radical Islamism.

In 2013, he led an active propaganda against the Syrian government. On June 20, 2013, he released an article entitled "Save Aleppo!" (Sauvez Alep!), In which he called for an invasion of Syria against the "bloody regime of Bashar al-Assad."

on February 9, 2014 performed on the Euromaidan stage with a speech that was published on February 10 by the newspaper Le Monde under the headline “We are all Ukrainians”.

on February 18, 2014 called on European athletes to stop participating in the Sochi Winter Olympics in protest against the violence in Kiev.

In 2015, Levy became one of the founders of the Ukrainian Modernization Agency.

All Information About: Bernard-Henri Levy - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography.
Author: Jane Watson